PIA01530: Volcanic Activity on Io
NASA'S Voyager 2 shows that Io's volcanos continually resurface it, so that any impact craters have disappeared.
 Target Name:  Io
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Product Size:  1517 x 1519 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P29943  
 Addition Date:  1999-05-08 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01530.tif (3.3 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01530.jpg (174.6 kB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Io's volcanos continually resurface it, so that any impact craters have disappeared.

JPL manages the Voyager project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-05-08