❄️💛 What Is Sulfur Snow? – Strange Yellow Frost Coating Jupiter’s Moon Io
Автор: CosmoScope
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On Jupiter’s moon Io, volcanoes don’t spew molten rock — they erupt with liquid sulfur and gas, painting the surface in shades of yellow, red, and white. 🌋💛
As this material cools in Io’s frigid atmosphere, it falls back to the surface as sulfur snow — a frost made not of water, but of volatile sulfur compounds. The result is a moon that looks like a cosmic painter’s palette, constantly reshaped by eruptions and frostfalls. ❄️🌕
Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System, powered by the immense tidal forces from Jupiter’s gravity. The constant flexing heats its interior, creating geysers that blast hundreds of kilometers into space. 🌌🔥
The “snow” that settles afterward isn’t cold comfort — it’s the ashes of a molten world, coating a surface that’s forever in motion. Studying Io’s sulfur cycles helps scientists understand planetary volcanism, chemistry, and how heat transforms worlds.
A place where fire becomes frost — and volcanic snowstorms never end.
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