Credit: J. Spencer (Lowell Observatory) and NASA/ESA

While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. Only a few weeks before these dramatic images were taken, the orbiting telescope snapped a portrait of one of Io's volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide 'snow.'

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9913b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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