Now this is amazing.. Scientists captured three supermassive volcanic eruptions on Jupiter’s Moon Io.. They took place in August 2013.
This:
A co-author on the study, Ashley Davies, a volcanologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), is de Pater’s long-time colleague.
"These new events are in a relatively rare class of eruptions on Io because of their size and astonishingly high thermal emission," Davies said in the release. "The amount of energy being emitted by these eruptions implies lava fountains gushing out of fissures at a very large volume per second, forming lava flows that quickly spread over the surface of Io."
Maybe we are watching the trials and tribulations that earth went through billions of years back, long before we had telescopes able to see anything like what we see here ..
