NASA spacecraft Cassini and Galileo have captured images of a towering volcanic plume from the Jovian moon Io, which has spread a red ring of deposits around the surface. The 400km (250m) plume is from the Tvashtar Catena region near Io's north pole.
Source: Flight International
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