Bruce Murray Space Image Library

Eruption of Ra Patera, Io

Eruption of Ra Patera, Io
Eruption of Ra Patera, Io False-color visible/ultraviolet images of Io showing the appearance and fading of a white volcanic deposit from an eruption at Ra Patera (near the center of the disk) as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 between 1994 and 1997. Space Telescope Science Institute / Lowell Observatory / John Spencer