You call that a volcano? *This* is a volcano.

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Image of Io taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007. The picture shows the enormous 290-kilometer (180-mile) high plume from the volcano Tvashtar. See here for more details.

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