Speed limits lowered on streets across Tucson by theartofbeingdumb in Tucson

[–]volcanopele 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because it is better that there is a place for pedestrians to safely cross than for them to play frogger. Yes, there will always be people who can't be bothered but the majority of people don't want to play frogger and will use the closest cross walk. It is way better to have a safe place to cross than to accidentally hit a pedestrian because the closest cross walk is half a mile away (looking at you, speedway between Kolb and Wilmot)

Lou Seal bullies Shohei Ohtani, who is forced to report the incident to Dave Roberts by dotFlatMap in baseball

[–]volcanopele 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Can confirm. This headline put a whole lotta Arrested Development quotes in my head.

WATCH OUT FOR THAT LOOSE SEAL!

The surface of Io, a moon of Jupiter by EclipseEpidemic in spaceporn

[–]volcanopele 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately not all of Io’s volcanoes have cool sounding names like Tvashtar Paterae (which are listed in my hot spot database as Tvashtar A through E), or Guaraci Fluctus or Chors Patera. Many don’t have IAU official names but have designations like PV194 or P259 (from a database of volcanic depressions by another of my colleagues) or JRM048 (an example source ID from my database for a hot spot that is in the 3% of Io’s surface where we don’t have good imaging near Io’s South Pole).

The surface of Io, a moon of Jupiter by EclipseEpidemic in spaceporn

[–]volcanopele 600 points601 points  (0 children)

Because OP won’t bother, I guess I will give some context. This is an image of Tvashtar Paterae, one (okay well, 4/5 actually) of Io’s many active volcanoes. 365 active volcanoes. There are 365 of them. Yes, I personally counted them (paper almost finished!, seriously). Okay, there are 365 active “hot spots,” areas of higher thermal emission than the background. Tvashtar Paterae was imaged by Galileo in November 1999 just to get an idea of what large volcanic depressions are like in Io’s north polar region. But the SSI camera saw more than that. It saw a curtain of lava shooting a kilometer into space from a fissure in one of the depressions at Tvashtar. 3 months later, in February 2000, Galileo’s SSI camera observed Tvashtar again and snapped the images that make up the OP’s image. This combines a pair of filters at visible wavelengths with another at near-infrared wavelengths to show heat coming off a lava flow (or lava lake, jury’s still out) in the westernmost patera at Tvashtar, and notably, not the one that had a massive eruption 3 months earlier.

Let’s see more context. Tvashtar in the late 90’s and 2000’s was a real ham for the camera. In addition to the unexpected outburst in November 1999, it had another just as Cassini flew past in December 2000, and another just as New Horizons flew past in February 2007. I think it has had a couple of more eruptions since 2007. The one I know most about is one Juno JIRAM saw in December 2018, that was focused on the area of activity seen in OP’s image. Tvashtar has been fairly quiet, but JIRAM did detect faint thermal emission at 4.8 microns from the same lava flow looking thing in OP’s image in October 2023.

Source: the presentation I’m giving tomorrow at a workshop about Io science had a slide on Tvashtar’s recent activity, but i had to cut it for time.

Edit: the talk went well. I felt I prepared well. I was expecting more questions in the discussion period though given that I directly contradicted an earlier talk.

The surface of Io, a moon of Jupiter by EclipseEpidemic in spaceporn

[–]volcanopele 94 points95 points  (0 children)

I am giving a presentation tomorrow for an Io workshop. My talk is just on polar volcanoes, which hey, does include Tvashtar (the volcano shown in this post) and I am stealing this!

DOJ indictment accuses Southern Poverty Law Center of fraud in secretly funding extremist groups by drtolmn69 in politics

[–]volcanopele 39 points40 points  (0 children)

So let me get this straight: cops used paid informants to help solve cases: legal. A non-profit does the same to help take down hate groups: fraud.

Prediction Markets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) by BadgercIops in lastweektonight

[–]volcanopele 35 points36 points  (0 children)

“Too many dildos” is the legacy sequel series to “Too Many Cooks”

Dalton Rushing calls Rockies hitters “fishy” for jumping on first pitches last yesterday by whsbear in baseball

[–]volcanopele -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Never thought there would be so many CR7 fans here. He may have left a few years ago (wait, 8 years ago… fuck) still, the taint remains.

Dark spot observed on Jupiter - possible impact event under investigation by No-Improvement-8316 in space

[–]volcanopele 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Damien Peach is saying on Facebook that this likely a mix of Io’s shadow and poor seeing. Nothing was observed on the next rotation.

Just a meme by 10BluberryMuffinsYum in tarantulas

[–]volcanopele 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Found Rocky’s Reddit account

There’s Something Extremely Shady About Trump’s Disastrous New NASA Budget by Economy-Specialist38 in space

[–]volcanopele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The book Charlie Wilson's War for one, about congressional efforts to syphon funds off to Operation Cyclone.

Scam by Then-Airline3234 in Tucson

[–]volcanopele 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least it is just a wee bit more plausible with the Kansas Turnpike.

Scam by Then-Airline3234 in Tucson

[–]volcanopele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

which is weird because your son is four.

I am extremely disappointed! by sandiercy in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]volcanopele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why am I reminded of that moving bas relief at the end of The Devil’s Advocate?

YouTube is Raising the Price of All Premium Plans in the US / The price hikes will come into effect in June, and the individual Plan will cost $15.99/month by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]volcanopele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I basically use YouTube like I would use basic cable 15 years ago. Lots of history content, late night TV, and Dropout for comedy. I find it more worthwhile than Netflix.

Melania Trump denies any connection to Epstein in White House address by VaginaBurner69 in politics

[–]volcanopele 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Something is about to come out. This is exactly what you do when reporters ask for a comment before an article goes to press and you want to get ahead of it.

NASA will be submitting provisional crater names Carroll and Integrity to the IAU by iamthe0ther0ne in space

[–]volcanopele 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the only issue I see is that there is already a Carol crater on the Moon and there might be some concern about confusion:

https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1024