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Geological maps: still interesting even when there’s only one rock type

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Chris Rowan

The USGS, in collaboration with NASA, have just released a geological map of Jupiter’s ultra-volcanically active moon Io, based on images from the Voyager and Galileo probes. It is a thing of beauty. The sheer variety of different geological units … Continue reading →