IO's volcano on a plane of sulphur 6
blamanj writes: "NASA a just released new pictures from the Galileo mission that show a volcano erupting in a vast sulphurous plane. The pictures of Tupan Patera show a field of yellow sulphur deposits, red heat, and black deposits of fresh lava. It's something to behold."
Is it just me? (Score:1)
The red areas almost seem to be a reddish mist that rises somewhere near the top of the central area, and drifts toward the bottom right.
I know that the top of the cliffs at the bottom of the picture are a similar red, and that solid sulphur does not float on top of liquid sulphur, but no matter how I rotate the image, I simply cannot seem to get my eyes to convince my brain that the central area is higher. Does it seem that way to anyone else?
Erupting a plane??? (Score:1)
Re:Sulphur chemistry, and life on Io (Score:1)