Eruption on Io
			
		
		
		
			There it goes again.  
Gas and rock were catapulted hundreds of kilometers into space as
Jupiter's most volatile moon, 
Io, showed yet another 
impressive volcanic display
in this just-released photograph by the 
Hubble Space Telescope. 
This time the culprit was 
Pele, a volcano thought previously inactive
since photographed by the passing 
Voyager
1 spacecraft in 1979.
The explosion is visible on 
Io's lower left in 
this 
false-color photograph, taken in July 1996.  Io's thin atmosphere and low
gravity allow 
volcanic plumes to rise higher than they would 
on Earth.