Probe Shows Jupiter Moon 'Puking' Into Space

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.""

Comments

Re:"Puking" and "barfing"?

[h00pla]

You have, of course, totally overestimated the taste of the editors.

Re:"Puking" and "barfing"?

[Tablizer]

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

You assume that other nations don't like having a little word-play fun. Getting into college and reading for enjoyment are two different things.

And frankly, critizing the US education motivation is somewhat unfair because becomming a business owner or biz manager pays so much more *compared to* science and math in the US that there is far more motivation in those countries to focus on sci-math in the schools: they don't have the options we do. Outsourcing brainy work with 3rd-world wages hasn't helped the situation either. Our schools are training us in skills that are being offshored. We need sales skills, not Calculus, to compete *in* America.

Fake?

[Poseiden]

Does this image look fake to anyone else? look how the light reflects off of the smoke plume. its like its lighted from the top when you see the sun hitting the satellite from the left.

agreed?