Tvashtar erupting -- the movie

Hi all,

Amazing movie of the Tvashtar volcano on Io erupting. Taken by the New Horizons spacecraft.

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000972/

Cheers,

Maurice

Amazing! 8O

Thanks for the link, Maurice! 8)

Thanks for posting this Maurice!!
Thats the most amazing thing I have seen in a long time!

Wow!

Everyone who finds this interesting should check out the New Horizons Jupiter gallery at

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPhotos.html

Jupiter Flyby News Conference Graphics and Presenters images at

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/050107_pressGraphics.htm


Another FYI - the St. Louis Astronomical Society's speaker this Friday (May 18, 2007) will be outer solar system specialist Dr. William McKinnon talking about New Horizon results at Jupiter:

"New Horizons at Jupiter and Its Satellites", an illustrated lecture by Dr. William McKinnon, will be featured at the May meeting of the Saint Louis Astronomical Society. The meeting will begin at 7:30 pm Friday, May 18, in McDonnell Hall, Room 162, on the Washington University campus, Saint Louis, MO 63130. McDonnell Hall is accessible from Forsyth Boulevard via Tolman Way. The presentation, cosponsored by NASA's Missouri Space Grant Consortium, is open to the public free of charge.

The Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft encountered Jupiter on February 28, 2007. The primary reason for the fly-by was to get a gravitational boost from the giant planet that will save literally tons of fuel. As Dr. McKinnon will explain, this was also an opportunity to use the spacecraft�s instruments to obtain new views of Jupiter and some of its satellites. The result: not only the newest, but the most detailed views of the huge jet streams and storms of the gas giant and also of the craters, volcanic eruptions, and other surface features of its large satellites. In addition to a guided tour of these spectacular pictures, Dr. McKinnon will present a preview of the New Horizons mission to the distant ice world Pluto and its three known satellites.

William McKinnon is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and a Fellow of the McDonnell Center For the Space Sciences at Washington University. He is also a member of the Science Team for NASA�s New Horizons mission. His research interests include impact cratering processes and the study of the distant ice worlds of our solar system. These are the satellites of the giant planets, as well as Pluto and the other small worlds that orbit the Sun at distances of billions of miles.