Reiden Patera, in a screenshot taken in
NASA World Wind. Click to enlarge.
Reiden Patera is a volcanic feature on
Jupiter's moon
Io. It was first detected by the Galileo SSI Team during the spacecraft Galileo's first orbit around Jupiter, initially detected as a
hotspot. 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 of Galileo. It has been spouting bright red
pyroclastic deposits of its own.[2] It is located at 13°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 a
Japanese thunder god ("
Raijin" in current English nomenclature).[3]Asha Patera can be found to the east, and
Kami-Nari Patera can be found to the north.[4]
