Massive volcano on Jupiter's moon could erupt imminently

[Makuser]

Jupiter's moon Io is home to the most active volcano in the solar system, Loki Patera, a 125-mile-wide lava lake. Now, a new study suggests that Loki Patera is getting ready to erupt again. “Loki is the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, so bright in the infrared that we can detect it using telescopes on the Earth,” Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun said in a statement. After looking at Loki, named for the Norse god, for more than 20 years, scientists have been able to gather that it erupts on a "relatively regular schedule." In the 1990s, that was every 540 days and it's now down to approximately every 475 days, which has lead Rathburn to believe it should erupt this month. You can read the entire story and see some great NASA photos here, at:
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