Lava flows and sulfur fields, Io

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Tvashtar erupting, Io
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The Galileo spacecraft was able to study huge eruptions on Tvashtar Paterae: A 25-kilometer long (16 mi),  1 to 2-kilometer high (0.62 to 1.24 mi) curtain of lava was seen, followed by a plume of gas rising 385 kilometers (239 mi) above the surface of Io. On February 2007 the New Horizons probe, on its way to Pluto, captured an enormous eruption with a 330-kilometer high (210 mi) plume.