Reiden Patera

Reiden Patera is a volcanic feature on Jupiter's moon Io. It was first detected by the "Galileo" SSI Team during the spacecraft Galileo's first orbit around Jupiter, initially detected as a hotspot. It was once thought that the activity there had stopped or waned below the limits of the spacecraft's Solid State Imager or Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer. [cite web
title=Lopes-Gautier_IoVolc_Icarus99.pdf | work=es.ucsc.edu
url=http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~rcoe/eart206/Lopes-Gautier_IoVolc_Icarus99.pdf
accessdate=October 18
accessyear=2007] However, it was noticed in 2002 that Reiden Patera has darkened considerably since the 24th orbit of "Galileo". It has been spouting bright red pyroclastic deposits of its own. [cite web
title=1954.pdf | work=lpi.usra.edu
url=http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2002/pdf/1954.pdf
accessdate=October 18
accessyear=2007] It is located at 13.4°S, 235.7°W and is 70 kilometers in diameter. It is named after a Japanese thunder god. [cite web
title=IO NOMENCLATURE | work=lnfm1.sai.msu.su
url=http://lnfm1.sai.msu.su/neb/rw/natsat/jup_sat/io/patera.htm
accessdate=October 18
accessyear=2007] Asha Patera can be found to the east, and Kami-Nari Patera can be found to the north. ["NASA World Wind" 1.4. NASA Ames Research Center, 2007.]

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