April 20, 1999: While hunting for volcanic plumes on Io, the Hubble telescope captured these images of the volatile moon sweeping across the giant face of Jupiter. Only a few weeks before these dramatic pictures were taken, the orbiting telescope snapped a portrait of one of Io’s volcanoes spewing sulfur dioxide “snow”.

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   Io too is really awesome

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    I can’t fucking wait to see Jupiter with my own eyes.

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