Jason Perry
@volcanopele
Avid volcanic moon enjoyer, makes space images look nice
Finally we have Antu Patera. Antu Patera had been designated P139 before it received an official IAU name. A major eruption was observed at Antu in December 2024, coinciding with the nearby West Illyrikon outburst. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
So yesterday in a reply to a post about LBT SHARK-VIS imaging of 44 Nysa, I mentioned that the same camera has been used to track surface changes on Io. Well one of those changes was the darkening of the floor of Goibniu Patera, coinciding with a major eruption in 2023. doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...
Here are another three. Walu Patera is a small-ish dark-floored patera next east of Emakong Patera notable for having TWO bright eruptions recently (May 2023 and March 2025). Kanassa Patera has this really weird shape and is at the other end of the Danube Patera trench from the much more active Pele
Three of my new favorite volcanoes also received names: Bila Patera is adjacent to Argos Planum and maybe eroding its western margin. Kuat Patera is just the very dark floored patera surrounded by dark diffuse material. Usil Patera had a major eruption at the same time as Pillan in June 1997
The one exception to this is Kagutsuchi Patera, which was observed at 600 meters per pixel by Juno/JIRAM in December 2023. It has a bright margin and a still warm floor, suggestive of a quiescent lava lake covering most of the floor of Kagutsuchi.
So as I mentioned yesterday, there are 10 new paterae with official names approved by the IAU as of July 23.
SHARK-VIS is amazing! We've been using it the last couple of seasons for Io change detection:
Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer
Well, hello there little fella. Juno's Stellar Reference Unit captured this view of Thebe from a distance of 5,000 km on May 1, 2026 during PJ83. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...
First high resolution image from Artemis II crew is this spectacular view of Earth lit by the Moon. Yep this is a nigh-side image of Earth.
Don’t forget to set you clocks forward or back, or however you people do that in the spring. Here in Arizona:
Screenshot of what I'm working on now. Just thought you all would find it... interesting I guess. These are hot spots on Io (centered over Io's southern hemisphere) observed by JIRAM on May 6, 2025.
The look of a dog who has no regrets about eating his human’s entire pumpkin bread.
@spacemarschall.net if going with an image from that paper, I would suggest our “true” color reconstructions. Very approximate true color, SHARK-VIS in February didn’t have a proper blue filter but a general purpose “visible” filter. Hopefully to be remedied in time for the next Jupiter oppo