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Salt Volcanoes on Io

Posted by michael on from the high-blood-pressure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Johns Hopkins astronomers trying to resolve the 30 year mystery of how one of Jupiter's moons generates its swirling clouds of charged particles have found their answer. The stunningly colorful moon, called Io, has a pillar of salt that spews from its volcanic surface."

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  1. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, the volcanic pillar of salt spews from YOU!!!