Two Dimensional Observations of Europa's Sodium Exosphere

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #30.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.540

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We have mapped the spatial distribution of sodium about Europa during an eight year time span since 1998. Data collected using the Stellar Spectrograph with the 10"x10" image slicer on the 1.6 meter McMath-Pierce telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO). We will show observations obtained in 2001 and 2002 using a tip-tilt image stabilizer. We will show temporal variations with respect to Jovian System III longitudes and the position of the Europa plasma torus. The Europan exosphere as described previously is static, and close to the satellite. This research adds another dimension - time - to the solution, and we explore a larger region about Europa. We will show how the sodium corona around Europa out to 10” has varied in this time span.

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