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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. Thats it, Wayne... by gjyoung · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I thought I had a no-hurl guarantee!

  2. speaking of puking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    just last night, I went out and got shitfaced drunk. Who did I happen to see? Kathleen Fent. Yeah. Now, normally, she's just a fat, ugly cunt, but I was drunk, and she does have a decent rack. I stopped by to say hi, which turned into a 30 minute conversation (translation: I stared at her tits and drank PBR while she bitched about ... I don't know, I wasn't really listening). Anyhow, I ended up fucking her in the parking lot, bent over the back of her car.

  3. In the end we will eventually discover by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    that the universe is a living thing and that we are just microbes.

    1. Re:In the end we will eventually discover by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And that was offtopic in what way? I think not only was it totally on topic, it was deeply insightful.
      Think about it..

  4. Re:"Puking" and "barfing"? by ArsenneLupin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had uranus in my vicinity all day long I once had met somebody who puked while my dick was in his anus... And he didn't even have the decency to puke into the toilet, but onto the floor next to it. And my shoes weren't that clean either was this "adventure".
  5. Re:Not so schön as the Goatse ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    do you sit here at slashdot all day and night, with no life, no girlfriend, no job, jerking off, clicking that refresh button every second just to see if you can get a first post to show goatse? you must really get some extreme personal gratitude for yourself with every first post..

  6. This is Enlarged Text by StikyPad · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I love "Enlarge Photo" buttons that open up the photo in the exact same dimensions and resolution as the one in the article. Anyone find a higher quality image?

    Also I was under the impression that water is blue on Earth because it reflects our blue atmosphere. Why would water on Mars be blue? Or is that a false-color image?

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