Pele (volcano)
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Not to be confused with Mount Pelée.
Pele is a volcano on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io. It is named after the Hawaiian volcano goddess Pele. The volcano is located at 18.7° South Latitude, 255.3° West Longitude. The volcano consists of a volcanic depression 30 km long by 20 km wide, at the northern base of a rifted plateau known as Danube Planum. A lake consisting of basaltic lava fills part of the depression, releasing tremendous amounts of energy into space.[1] This lava lake is also the source of a plume of gas and dust that reaches as high as 300 km above the surface before the material is deposited in a ring of red material as far as 600 km from the volcano.[2]
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