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Imagine standing on Io, Jupiters volcanic moon. This tiny moon erupts more than any world in the solar system. Would you dare to stand on a world that never stops erupting? #StarryNight
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00:00Imagine standing on Io, Jupiter's volcanic moon.
00:03Under your feet, yellow sulfur cracks and steams.
00:06All around you, volcanoes erupt, plumes of sulfur rising 300 kilometers high.
00:12Jupiter hangs in the sky, pulling at Io's insides with tides stronger than any ocean.
00:18The sky glows orange.
00:20This tiny moon erupts more than any world in the solar system.
00:24Would you dare to stand on a world that never stops erupting?
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