Reiden Patera, in a screenshot taken inNASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.
Reiden Patera is a volcanic feature onJupiter's moonIo. It was first detected by theGalileo SSI Team during the spacecraft Galileo's first orbit around Jupiter, initially detected as ahotspot. It was once thought that the activity there had stopped or waned below the limits of the spacecraft's Solid State Imager or Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer.[1] However, it was noticed in 2002 that Reiden Patera has darkened considerably since the 24th orbit ofGalileo. It has been spouting bright redpyroclastic deposits of its own.[2] It is located at13°24′S235°27′W / 13.4°S 235.45°W /-13.4; -235.45 (Reiden Patera) and is 70 kilometers in diameter. It is named after aJapanese thunder god ("Raijin" in current English nomenclature).[3]Asha Patera can be found to the east, andKami-Nari Patera can be found to the north.[4]
