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Volcanic ashes from Io

Jupiter’s moon Io is shooting tiny volcanic projectiles at passing spacecraft. They scorch through space traveling 670,000 mph, and they can even reach Earth. The Ulysses spacecraft discovered the fast-moving bits of ash in 1992, and encountered them again this year, raising new questions about the solar system’s weirdest meteoroids.

posted by: kyawoo at 20:14 | link | comments (2) |
unmanned missions, jupiter

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#1  28 October 2004 - 10:00

 

Sounds like Jupiter's moon Io has a built in defense mechanism.

Interesting article.

Jackal

#2  24 November 2004 - 16:43

 

thats WILD!

Anonymous

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