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Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea (long dormant) volcano to target the atmosphere of Uranus. When she finished, de Pater decided to take brief images of Io in anticipation of our team beginning a program to monitor Io in the near-infrared at the Gemini North telescope and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), also located on Mauna Kea. Figure 2. Observations of the August 29th volcanic outburst on Io over a two-week period. The star indicates the outburst site; other smaller-scale events are also visible. Figur B