Portal:Astronomy/Picture/Week 04 2006

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Constantly flexed by enormous tidal forces during its 42.5 hour orbit, Jupiter's colourful moon Io is an extremely volcanic body, with sulphur volcanoes generating plumes of debris hundreds of kilometres high. Credit:NASA

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