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VITI AS IO

Artist: MICHAEL CARROLL (Painter)

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Title:	VITI AS IO
Artist:	MICHAEL CARROLL (Painter)
Media Type:	Paint - Acrylic
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	960
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	8/21/2018
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15" x 10". Original acrylic painting on illustration board. Circa 1988. Displayed in the Smithsonian Museum, featured in Astronomy and other magazines, and featured at the Air and Space Museum in 1989. The painting is a rendering of the Jupiter moon, Io, based on a site in northern Iceland called Viti, which is a volcanic caldera system in the Myvatn region.

Io (Jupiter I) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. It is the fourth-largest moon, has the highest density of all the moons, and has the least amount of water of any known astronomical object in the Solar System.

With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most geologically active object in the Solar System. This extreme geologic activity is the result of tidal heating from friction generated within Io's interior as it is pulled between Jupiter and the other Galilean satellites�Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Several volcanoes produce plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide that climb as high as 500 km (300 mi) above the surface. Io's surface is also dotted with more than 100 mountains that have been uplifted by extensive compression at the base of Io's silicate crust. Some of these peaks are taller than Mount Everest. Unlike most satellites in the outer Solar System, which are mostly composed of water ice, Io is primarily composed of silicate rock surrounding a molten iron or iron-sulfide core. Most of Io's surface is composed of extensive plains coated with sulfur and sulfur-dioxide frost.

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Nils E
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 8/23/2018

Amazing!

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