Pele (volcano)

Pele (volcano)

Pele is a volcano on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. It is named after the Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele. The volcano is located at 18.7° South Latitude, 255.3° West Longitude. The volcano consists of a volcanic depression 30 km long by 20 km wide, at the northern base of a rifted plateau known as Danube Planum. A lake consisting of basaltic lava fills part of the depression, releasing tremendous amounts of energy into space.cite journal | last=Radebaugh |first=J. |coauthors="et al." |title=Observations and temperatures of Io’s Pele Patera from Cassini and Galileo spacecraft images |journal=Icarus |volume=169 |issue= |pages=65–79 |date=2004 |url= |doi = ] This lava lake is also the source of a plume of gas and dust that reaches as high as 300 km above the surface before the material is deposited in a ring of red material as far as 600 km from the volcano.Strom, R. G.; "et al."; (1979); "Volcanic eruption plumes on Io", Nature, Vol. 280, pp. 733-736]

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