Image: Io Tupan Patera

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Description: Detail of the volcanic crater named Tupan Patera on Jupiter's moon Io, vieweed from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. This image shows the results of lava interacting with sulfur-rich materials, and is only slightly enhanced with infrared light compared to what the human eye would actually see. This image of Tupan Patera, named after a Brazilian thunder god, was taken at a resolution of 135 meters (443 feet) per picture element (so, image width is 100 km).
Title: Io Tupan Patera
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA02599 Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Huntster using CommonsHelper.
Author: The original uploader was Volcanopele at English Wikipedia
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