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NASA spacecraft catches volcano plumes blasting into space
This Jupiter moon is the most volcanic world in our solar system. When NASA's Juno orbiter swooped close to a Jupiter moon, it saw a pair of volcanic plumes spurting material into space, something the robotic spacecraft hadn't captured before. The plumes rise high above Io, Jupiter's third-largest …
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