Amirani (volcano)

[3] Later that year, the International Astronomical Union named this feature after a Georgian fire god, Amirani.

[4] Within the mountains of the crater, Amirani lies at the center of a frozen sulphuric lava field that consists of a half-circle shaped, 37 kilometer wide volcanic pit, which is connected to a 330 kilometer compound lava flow by a narrow channel.

[citation needed] The southern half of the Amirani flow field is surrounded by a white plume of bright sulfuric dioxide (SO2) diffuse deposits composed of basalt and silica, that freeze and fall to the ground during eruptions.

[7] Unlike volcanoes on Earth, Amirani can erupt for years at a time with constant lava flows pouring out onto Io's surface.

It is said that Amirani, son of Dali, the great Goddess of the hunt, defied God by introducing the use of metal to all whom he came in contact with.