Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space 152
Tablizer writes "The New Horizons probe caught the moon Io in the act of 'barfing' into space. A five-frame sequence from the New Horizons probe captured a beautiful plume of ash from Io's Tvashtar volcano. "Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever "movie" of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface ... The appearance and motion of the plume is remarkably similar to an ornamental fountain on Earth, replicated on a gigantic scale.""
Amazing pics (Score:3, Interesting)
Considering the distance it's a real neat proof of excellent space ship engineering.
Looking at the hight to which the venting reaches this is one hell of a volcano!
Rovers and such (Score:1, Interesting)
Direction of spout (Score:2, Interesting)
Question: Why is the quality so poor? (Score:1, Interesting)
Well ok a phone cam only has to work a few meters in good lighting. Never the less, the size, power and bandwidth requirements for decent video is being reduced, in part by the consumer electronics industry. So what is the limiting factor these probes?
Re:Question: Why is the quality so poor? (Score:2, Interesting)