University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

UVA Astronomers Study Huge Lava Lake on Jupiter's moon Io

November 17, 2015

UVA astronomer Michael Skrutskie and colleagues have taken advantage of a chance alignment of Jupiter's moons to study Io's Loki Patera volcano and its huge lava lake with 40 times better resolution than any past Earth-based observations.

Read more at EOS Earth and Space Science News

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