Silpium Mons is a mountain on

Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth t ...

's moon Io. It is 5.6 kilometers in height, 113 kilometers in length, and 79.7 kilometers in width. It covers an area of 7073 km². It is a striated ridge, meaning it is an elevated structure dominated by one or more prominent linear or arcuate rises. It is named after a location in

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...

where the mythological Io died of grief. Its name was adopted by the

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in 1979. It is located at , south of Svarog Patera, north of

Mithra Patera Mithra Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 34 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the Persian god of light, Mithra. Its name was adopted by the International Ast ...

, and northeast of

Viracocha Patera Viracocha Patera is a patera, or a complex crater with scalloped edges, on Jupiter's moon Io. It is about 61 kilometers in diameter and is located at . It is named after the Quechua creator god Viracocha. The name was adopted by the International ...

. Its proximity to Svarog and Viracocha Paterae has been suggested to be evidence for a structural relationship between mountains and

caldera A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are erupted over a short time, structural support for the rock above the magma chamber is ...

s on Io.Harland, David M. (2000). ''Jupiter Odyssey: The Story of NASA's Galileo Mission''. Springer. . p. 353

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{{Io Mountains on Io (moon)