Danube Planum

Danube Planum is a rifted mesa on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

Mass wasting in the form of landslide deposits are visible along the base of the western half of Danube Planum.

One of the faults that helped form Danube Planum may also act as a conduit for magma to rise to the surface at Pele.

[4] In 1985, the International Astronomical Union officially named the mountain after the Danube River, one of a number of places the mythological Io passed during her wanderings.

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