Powerful volcanoes and the previous day's sunshine warm the nighttime surface of Jupiter's moon Io, in this image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The left-hand frame shows Io's nighttime temperatures. The right-hand frame, based on Galileo camera images, shows the same hemisphere of Io in visible light. Click to enlarge.

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