Volcanic Plume on Io

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Various spacecraft have shown these umbrella-shaped plumes, composed mainly of sulphur-dioxide, on Jupiter's moon, Io.  Most recently, the New Horizons spacecraft imaged a plume 180 miles high:

(see http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=23514)

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