Io

An Io globe (Jupiter I), one of the four large moons of Jupiters, also known and as the Galilean Satellites.

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One of the most active worlds of the solar system, with over 400 active volcanoes, It's colourful surface is a painting of sulphuric and silicate lava flows tens of even hundreds of kilometres long.

All too often, volcanic explosion eject material up to 200km into space, producing large umbrella-shaped plumes that slowly rain back unto the moon's surface colouring it red black and white.

The moon's surface changes so fast, that a true Io globe becomes almost a meaningless concept since in only a few decades it becomes inaccurate. Instead this globe represents a mere snapshot in time, largely based on the observations of the Galileo spacecraft.