Volcano Loki And Lava Lake Observed From Earth 

With the first detailed observations of a lava lake on a moon of Jupiter, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona places itself as the forerunner of the next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes. The applied high-resolution imaging methods were developed by an international research team including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

This is an interferometric image of Jupiter’s moon Io taken with the LBT on Dec. 24, 2013 (left) compared to a satellite image on the basis of images from NASA space missions like Voyager 1 and 2 or Galileo (right). The lava lake of the Loki volcano can be seen in dark red on the LBT image. The circles mark the positions of further volcanoes on Io.

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