Violent silicate volcanism on Io in 1996

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Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28.1365s&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 365.

Physics

Io, Satellite Surfaces, Silicates, Volcanoes, Thermal Emission, Galileo Spacecraft, Space Observations (From Earth), Satellite Imagery, Magma, Lava

Scientific paper

This paper presents measurements of the 1.7- to 4.8-micron brightness of the volcanic thermal emission from Io's Jupiter-facing hemisphere while Io was in Jupiter's shadow on approximately 56 nights during 1995 and 1996. Silicate volcanic activity (or, at least, volcanic activity with magmas at silicate temperatures) is found to be widespread and frequent on Io. Some silicate eruptions are so violent that their 1- to 5-micron thermal emission is dominated by material at near-magmatic temperatures for periods of a week or longer, with little evidence for extensive formation of cooler crusts on the magma surface, or spreading lava flows.

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