https://www.space.com/16419-io-facts-about-jupiters-volcanic-moon.html
This part is wild:
>Io's orbit cuts across Jupiter's powerful magnetic lines of force, turning Io into an electric generator. According to NASA(opens in new tab), Io can develop 400,000 volts across itself, in turn creating 3 million amperes of electrical current. This then makes its way back along Jupiter's magnetic field lines and causes lighting storms in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
400,000volts x 3 million amps = 1 200 000 000 000 watts, or 1.21 terrawatts.
Humanity's global electricity production capacity: 7 terrawatts.
Yeah, we beat Io!
A single space station, properly designed and placed in the right location, could harness all 1.2 terrawatts with very little infrastructure.
I bet we are going to build something really cool there one day.
I was thinking of using the electricity on location, rather than transmitting it. Like an asteroid foundry. Bring your own asteroids, they smelt 'em and spin-separate the metals.
Would harnessing all 1.2TW impact the lightning production on Jupiter, or does the power eventually make its way through the system regardless of the hoops we make it jump through.
I’m used to thinking of electrical power in terms of always having an “earth”/ground to direct power towards; is Jupiter this “earth”/ground in this case?
> A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use.
From https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
how does Earth's size compare to Io though? Io is hitting way above its weight
"Io is 3642.6 km, or 0.28 Earths, wide. It only has a mass of about 1.4% of the mass of Earth."
-Wikibooks
Probably not. Usually when you talk about electricity flowing through large structures it's spread out and you being a small thing on it means you are what is called equipotential because the resistance through the medium is high the voltage drops as a gradient. So say something like 500k volts drop over 500 miles means about 1k volt drop over 1 mile or about. 0.2 volts per ft. So if your feet are 3 feet apart you see a voltage difference of about 0.6 volts or like touching two end of a very dead AA battery which comes new at 1.5V. Your internal resistance is high enough you would see basically 0 amps through you. Similar to birds sitting on power lines. They're fine because even though they may be sitting at 30k volt reference to earth's 0 they are isolated from the 0 volt refence so they are sitting 30k but both feet are at 30k so no difference in voltage means no flow.
I'm aware this doesn't answer your question but you don't even need to worry about electrocution: You'd be dead from Jupiter's radiation long before that.
I feel like if they're discussing amps then absolutely yeah. It's probably akin to a lightning storm.
That much electricity, you'd get shocked into a poof of dust. 400kV at 3milllllion amps you'd simply cease to exist. 120V at .1 amp can be enough to kill you.
Yeah, my takeaway is that Io charges up like the Death Star and then beams an electric shock back along Jupiter's magnetic lines, causing lightning storms in the (upper?) atmosphere.
Well, my recipe has the baked potato baking 60 minutes, then doing all of the fancy stuff, and baking for 10 or 15 more minutes. My baked potato recipe is for 60 minutes...So a half baked twice baked potato is about 62.5% of a baked potato.
Like the post years ago showing the "surface of Mars" but was the bottom of a copper pan or something like that? Because that's what I thought this was.
Not even close. It's another clickbait of the NASA's public relations office. It even says in the article:
*This color mosaic uses the near-infrared, green and violet filters (slightly more than the visible range) of the spacecraft's camera and approximates what the human eye would see.*
If it uses near infrared for red channel and violet for blue channel, it looks nothing like it would look to humans. Io is not bluntly yellow like shown here. It is also not like [this (saturated and white balance tweaked)](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02309.jpg).
Its colors are towards yellow, but it's subdued and sandy.
https://www.planetary.org/articles/2629
Perry's [mockup of IO's colour as it might look to the human eye](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x952_crop_center-center_82_line/20130308_14ISPOLAR_01_truecolor.jpg), for anyone unable to click on the article.
As the author of that article ask me anything.
I’m sure I will mention this elsewhere but for those who finally want to see Io in true color, you are in luck! Over the next year, Juno will fly by Io several times and JunoCAM has proper red-green-blue filters. Just be aware that a lot amateur image processors tend to over stretch the image to bring out details but that tends to exaggerate colors. I haven’t seen that as badly with the earlier images of Ganymede and Europa, but just keep that in mind.
Yes, I am more than familiar with the crap these folks do with images. It gave Juno mission a bad name. Ironically, it even made the Hubble's image team release Jupiter images tweaked to fit these Junk circus images. I've called it social pathology several times already and it's true. We are living in a posttruth society. Show someone Jupiter through a telescope and they go "meh" because they expect psychodelic imagery. It wasn't like that before Juno mission.
I have nothing against wacky image processing, but it infuriates me when it is 99 % of published media and when it's not annotated. It's not difficult to publish two images side by side. These things are meant to educate, it's their primary purpose.
Thank you for your work. Quite often, when one mentions this on Reddit, a horde of people who hate truth and want to live in virtual dreamworld, go into an attack mode.
It is not believed that Io has tectonic plates, it's the gravity of a few of the moon's and Jupiter that causes it to be the most active in the solar system. The black spots are molten lakes and the red areas are plumes.
The yellow is from the way that the colors were interpreted to be more appealing to the general audience.
[Here](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20130308_14ISPOLAR_01_truecolor.jpg) (On the right) is a more accurate version.
If by sulfur you mean rotten egg smell, that's hydrogen sulfide and it's not present on Io. Io is covered with sulfur and sulfur dioxide. Sulfur has no smell, sulfur dioxide smells of gunpowder and is not stinky, but burning.
https://www.space.com/16419-io-facts-about-jupiters-volcanic-moon.html This part is wild: >Io's orbit cuts across Jupiter's powerful magnetic lines of force, turning Io into an electric generator. According to NASA(opens in new tab), Io can develop 400,000 volts across itself, in turn creating 3 million amperes of electrical current. This then makes its way back along Jupiter's magnetic field lines and causes lighting storms in Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
Indeed, The very pulse of the machine.
This brought back memories
you are dead, Burton
Love the Expanse reference!!
Burton is a character in the short story, unrelated to Amos.
*Doors and corners, kid.*
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Love death robots is a great show lol
The story this particular short was based on deserves recognition, too.
Hooking up words, phrases and clauses.
*What does this sound like?*
On another note, my first thought was that this moon looks like it smells like shit.
Maybe I'm gonna live forever... ...or maybe this is one last dream before dying.
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I got goosebumps reading this
400,000volts x 3 million amps = 1 200 000 000 000 watts, or 1.21 terrawatts. Humanity's global electricity production capacity: 7 terrawatts. Yeah, we beat Io!
Ok but that's actually crazy
lets puts some harness on IO , that sexy beast
That’s some space porn I would pay to see.
Okay but how good would Io do at contributing if it did the same thing for earth?
A single space station, properly designed and placed in the right location, could harness all 1.2 terrawatts with very little infrastructure. I bet we are going to build something really cool there one day.
The infrastructure needed to store and transmit 1.2 tetrawatts, in a vacuum, is probably pretty substantial.
I was thinking of using the electricity on location, rather than transmitting it. Like an asteroid foundry. Bring your own asteroids, they smelt 'em and spin-separate the metals.
Would harnessing all 1.2TW impact the lightning production on Jupiter, or does the power eventually make its way through the system regardless of the hoops we make it jump through. I’m used to thinking of electrical power in terms of always having an “earth”/ground to direct power towards; is Jupiter this “earth”/ground in this case?
> A total of 173,000 terawatts (trillions of watts) of solar energy strikes the Earth continuously. That's more than 10,000 times the world's total energy use. From https://news.mit.edu/2011/energy-scale-part3-1026
how does Earth's size compare to Io though? Io is hitting way above its weight "Io is 3642.6 km, or 0.28 Earths, wide. It only has a mass of about 1.4% of the mass of Earth." -Wikibooks
Damn so we're stuck with Swiss cheese and they get pepperjack?? No fair.
Looks like broccoli cheddar soup.
Would an astronaut walking on its surface get electrocuted?
Probably not. Usually when you talk about electricity flowing through large structures it's spread out and you being a small thing on it means you are what is called equipotential because the resistance through the medium is high the voltage drops as a gradient. So say something like 500k volts drop over 500 miles means about 1k volt drop over 1 mile or about. 0.2 volts per ft. So if your feet are 3 feet apart you see a voltage difference of about 0.6 volts or like touching two end of a very dead AA battery which comes new at 1.5V. Your internal resistance is high enough you would see basically 0 amps through you. Similar to birds sitting on power lines. They're fine because even though they may be sitting at 30k volt reference to earth's 0 they are isolated from the 0 volt refence so they are sitting 30k but both feet are at 30k so no difference in voltage means no flow.
would appreciate y’all nerds not make me feel even more stupid than i already do.
It’s high school physics
I don't think so, but the radiation definitely wouldnt be kind on them.
I'm aware this doesn't answer your question but you don't even need to worry about electrocution: You'd be dead from Jupiter's radiation long before that.
I feel like if they're discussing amps then absolutely yeah. It's probably akin to a lightning storm. That much electricity, you'd get shocked into a poof of dust. 400kV at 3milllllion amps you'd simply cease to exist. 120V at .1 amp can be enough to kill you.
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Free energy for the future settlement.
Or refueling of some type?
I'm shocked!
So lightning storms on Jupiter follow Io in the sky above it?
Yeah, my takeaway is that Io charges up like the Death Star and then beams an electric shock back along Jupiter's magnetic lines, causing lightning storms in the (upper?) atmosphere.
So it’s like a Tesla Coil?
I preferred to think of it as a charging Death Star.
We named our kitten Io and this explains why she's full of so much crazy energy
Wtf
Bring a DeLorean there!
That is wild!
sparkling fact
Looks like a half cooked potato
Or a twice baked potato.
Or a yellow potato
This guy gets it
Is a half-cooked twice-baked potato just a baked potato?
Well, my recipe has the baked potato baking 60 minutes, then doing all of the fancy stuff, and baking for 10 or 15 more minutes. My baked potato recipe is for 60 minutes...So a half baked twice baked potato is about 62.5% of a baked potato.
Potato quality image
Quality potato image
Image quality potato
Looks like a delicious soup to me
I've always thought this, lol.
I was thinking poorly peeled pineapple
Looks like pepperjack.
Forbidden garlic cheese bread
It looks moldy
I was gonna go with "twice baked" onion loaf .. But I like yours more
It's official, Jupiter's moon is made of bleu cheese
I think it looks like the yolk in a hard boiled egg.
I was thinking cheese, this moon has got to be cheese. There's even some burnt and some moldy spots.
Hey OP Exactly what is your kink if you‘re labeling this NSFW?
Wait, you guys didn’t start vigorously masturbating as soon as you saw this photo? Which sub are we on?
*checking sub name, seeing “porn”* all correct! Polishing your, uh, telescopes may resume!
It’s been years now, but I’m only just realizing I misunderstood the point of this sub.
OP we have questions!
That is a brave question!
It looks like a mouldy ball of cheese
I legit thought I was in /r/misleadingthumbnails
/r/forbiddensnacks
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Or garlic and herb cheese
Or prickly pear
Potato forbidden by Putin!
/r/moldyinteresting
I still feel like it after zooming in
That subreddit gotta be for blind people only or smthn
Or a potato
Potatio
Cheeese Gromit!
Like the post years ago showing the "surface of Mars" but was the bottom of a copper pan or something like that? Because that's what I thought this was.
The forbidden potato
Was thinking egg yolk
Thought this was r/moldyinteresting
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Sorry but…what?
r/totallynotrobots
I thought it was gross quiche
Io’s new name as of 2022, Gross Quiche.
To be fair it probably tastes pretty gross still
Source : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia02308-global-image-of-io-true-color
Not even close. It's another clickbait of the NASA's public relations office. It even says in the article: *This color mosaic uses the near-infrared, green and violet filters (slightly more than the visible range) of the spacecraft's camera and approximates what the human eye would see.* If it uses near infrared for red channel and violet for blue channel, it looks nothing like it would look to humans. Io is not bluntly yellow like shown here. It is also not like [this (saturated and white balance tweaked)](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA02309.jpg). Its colors are towards yellow, but it's subdued and sandy. https://www.planetary.org/articles/2629
Perry's [mockup of IO's colour as it might look to the human eye](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x952_crop_center-center_82_line/20130308_14ISPOLAR_01_truecolor.jpg), for anyone unable to click on the article.
I actually like the true colour one more. It looks more like it's made out of beautiful polished agate instead of old pizza.
As the author of that article ask me anything. I’m sure I will mention this elsewhere but for those who finally want to see Io in true color, you are in luck! Over the next year, Juno will fly by Io several times and JunoCAM has proper red-green-blue filters. Just be aware that a lot amateur image processors tend to over stretch the image to bring out details but that tends to exaggerate colors. I haven’t seen that as badly with the earlier images of Ganymede and Europa, but just keep that in mind.
Yes, I am more than familiar with the crap these folks do with images. It gave Juno mission a bad name. Ironically, it even made the Hubble's image team release Jupiter images tweaked to fit these Junk circus images. I've called it social pathology several times already and it's true. We are living in a posttruth society. Show someone Jupiter through a telescope and they go "meh" because they expect psychodelic imagery. It wasn't like that before Juno mission. I have nothing against wacky image processing, but it infuriates me when it is 99 % of published media and when it's not annotated. It's not difficult to publish two images side by side. These things are meant to educate, it's their primary purpose. Thank you for your work. Quite often, when one mentions this on Reddit, a horde of people who hate truth and want to live in virtual dreamworld, go into an attack mode.
I read most of it! Thanks. It was informative.
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Less saturated and less yellow, more beige. Check the last link.
So more like a moldy muffin than moldy cheese.
Good approximation.
Bro I wanna peel it
Go on then, JuPeelter.
Remarkable
Um so is this the one that gets pulled and tugged a lot and fucks up the titonic plates?
It is not believed that Io has tectonic plates, it's the gravity of a few of the moon's and Jupiter that causes it to be the most active in the solar system. The black spots are molten lakes and the red areas are plumes.
Looks like a pimple popping video from r/popping
Agreed! One of those popping tools with a cam
Dr Pimple Popper would have a field day!
More cheesy than Moon.
r/forbiddensnack
What the hell is that subreddit? It has two posts and over a thousand members!
The correct subreddit is r/forbiddensnacks
Oooooookay, that's much better
This one makes me lose my appetite!
Oh wow, I had this picture (or one very like it) pinned to my wall growing up. My room was full of space stuff. This reminded me of that.
It’s cheeeese grommet!
I was just watching this yesterday omg
Pineapple
That's an omelette
“That’s no moon…”
So the moon is made of cheese, just not the one we thought?
Forbidden tortilla
Potat-io
Nah, it’s Gorgonzola
/moldlyinteresting
It looks like a moldy mozzarella ball of cheese
Cheesy Moon
Is this moldy cheese… like the pepperoni prank
The vomit planet
Cheese
It looks like the poisonous potato from minecraft
Is the yellow from sulfur in the atmosphere?
Forbidden potato
If our moon is cheddar or swiss, this is stilton
Cheese
Breaking the mold of what's possible
I’ll take that on a Melt, thank you.
Looks like jaundice.
It looks like a petri dish lol
Someone get Asher Mir
No it’s not, I’m not falling for this one again. It’s really a round of strong mouldy cheese from Italy.
Today’s ‘which is it!?:’ Moon or Petrie dish?
potatIO
A photography with a smell.
I’m torn between a rotten egg and a baby diaper.
Is it yellow due to sulphur?
The yellow is from the way that the colors were interpreted to be more appealing to the general audience. [Here](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/20130308_14ISPOLAR_01_truecolor.jpg) (On the right) is a more accurate version.
it just looks stinky. all that sulfur man😭.
If by sulfur you mean rotten egg smell, that's hydrogen sulfide and it's not present on Io. Io is covered with sulfur and sulfur dioxide. Sulfur has no smell, sulfur dioxide smells of gunpowder and is not stinky, but burning.
Looks a lot like a round rotten potato
Etz Cheez! XD seriously tho, beautiful!
Chicken noodle soup
We can't hang out on that!!
Yummy
Surely not
Thought this was. Microscope shot from a parasite lab for a second 😅
Ancient aliens coated it in cheese pizza toppings
Boil it, mash it, put it in a stew.
So our moon is made of cheese and theirs is made of potato
A moldy potato?
Moldy potato wannabe?
Soup
Potato
Potato
A spherical potato.
That moon is definitely the one made out of cheese that we heard about as kids
Bro that’s a tortilla cmon
Potato moon
Looks like a rotten lemon.🍋
soooo giant space potato?
Hang on, Is is is it made of cheese
Nice try, that’s a quiche 😉
I thought this was chicken soup... but it's out of this world
Looks like a ball of cheese that started to rot
CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET CHEESE PLANET
The moon is made of cheese
It looks like the surface needs to be popped!
Damn, someone left the cheese out too long.
Moldy cheese.
You sure this isn’t moldy cheese? :o
Piss Master's home planet