Fire Fountains on Io

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..289d&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 289

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Fire Fountains, Io, Models: Flow, Volcanism

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A rift zone fire fountain model and a silicate lava flow model are used to explain the Io thermal IR outburst of 9th January, 1990. This is the best observed large thermal outburst from Io. The dataset is multispectral with respect to time, and is therefore unique. These data cannot be fitted by some scenarios, such as an active lava flow or cooling body of magma, or an overturning lava lake. The 9th January 1990 event can be modelled as a two-component silicate eruption, consisting of a rift eruption producing a line of large fire fountains, feeding a large clastogenic lava flow.

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