{"id":733,"date":"2009-06-23T21:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T05:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=733"},"modified":"2009-08-06T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T00:08:33","slug":"ios-tvashtar-volcano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"Io&#8217;s Tvashtar Volcano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To get things going again, I thought I&#8217;d start posting some of my favorite space images &#8211; and what could be better than this animated sequence of 5 images of the plume of Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/gallery\/videos\/dataMv\/20070514_tvasMot.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/tvashtar_051407_loop.gif\" alt=\"Io's Tvashtar Volcano\" width=\"384\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><br clear=\"all\"><font size=\"1\"><i>Image Credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute<\/i><\/font><br \/>\n<br \/>This sequence of images was captured by the New Horizons spacecraft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as it passed by Jupiter on its way to Pluto.The plume extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s surface. Only the upper part of the plume is visible\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the plume\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s source is 130 kilometers (80 miles) below the edge of Io&#39;s disk,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0on the far side of the moon.The five images were obtained over an 8-minute span, with two minutes between frames, on March 1, 2007.\u00c2\u00a0 Io was 3.8 million kilometers (2.4 million miles) from New Horizons. More information on the New Horizons can be found at JPL&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pluto.jhuapl.edu\/\">New Horizons Plut-Kuiper Belt mission website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To get things going again, I thought I&#8217;d start posting some of my favorite space images &#8211; and what could be better than this animated sequence of 5 images of the plume of Tvashtar volcano on Jupiter&#8217;s moon Io: Image Credit: NASA\/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory\/Southwest Research Institute This sequence of images was captured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suchland.com\/craig\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}