Reiden Patera

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Reiden Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.
Reiden Patera, in a screenshot taken in NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.

Reiden Patera is a volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io. It was first detected by the Galileo SSI Team during the spacecraft Galileo's first orbit around Jupiter, initially detected as a hotspot. It was once thought that the activity there had stopped or waned below the limits of the spacecraft's Solid State Imager or Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer.[1] However, it was noticed in 2002 that Reiden Patera has darkened considerably since the 24th orbit of Galileo. It has been spouting bright red pyroclastic deposits of its own.[2] It is located at 13.4°S, 235.7°W and is 70 kilometers in diameter. It is named after a Japanese thunder god.[3] Asha Patera can be found to the east, and Kami-Nari Patera can be found to the north.[4]

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  1. ^ Lopes-Gautier_IoVolc_Icarus99.pdf. es.ucsc.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2007.
  2. ^ 1954.pdf. lpi.usra.edu. Retrieved on October 18, 2007.
  3. ^ IO NOMENCLATURE. lnfm1.sai.msu.su. Retrieved on October 18, 2007.
  4. ^ NASA World Wind 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.