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Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space

Posted by Zonk on from the intergalactic-bodily-fluids dept.

Tablizer writes "The New Horizons probe caught the moon Io in the act of 'barfing' into space. A five-frame sequence from the New Horizons probe captured a beautiful plume of ash from Io's Tvashtar volcano. "Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter earlier this year, this first-ever "movie" of an Io plume clearly shows motion in the cloud of volcanic debris, which extends 330 kilometers (200 miles) above the moon's surface ... The appearance and motion of the plume is remarkably similar to an ornamental fountain on Earth, replicated on a gigantic scale.""

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  1. Dizzy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's probably just dizzy from all that spinning.

  2. So... by Iwanowitch · · Score: 5, Funny

    So... The demotion of Pluto has finally reached Jupiter?

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  3. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I had uranus in my vicinity all day long, I'd be barfing too!

    Wait.. Maybe that comment wasn't what you were looking for :)

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  4. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by bushboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought it was because of the high level of education in the USA?

    "Whooa dude, that Io's like, err, like, err, barfing dude! - hehhehhhehehehhehhe"
    "shwoaaah yeah, it's puking man! - kewl! - ehherrheehhheheh"

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