Plasma ion heating of an SO2 atmosphere on Io

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Oct 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989georl..16.1117j&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters (ISSN 0094-8276), vol. 16, Oct. 1989, p. 1117-1120.

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Io, Magnetospheric Ion Density, Plasma Heating, Satellite Atmospheres, Sulfur Dioxides, Atmospheric Diffusion, Atmospheric Temperature, Planetary Magnetospheres, Jupiter, Satellites, Io, Plasma, Ions, Heating, Sulfur Dioxide, Gases, Temperature, Structure, Diffusion, Models, Calculations, Bombardment, Mixing, Gravity Effects, Sputtering, Plasma Torus

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The Jovian plasma-ion heating of any atmospheric gas over Io is shown to be important for determining the temperature structure and the location of the exobase and for limiting diffusive separation in Io's atmosphere. This is used, along with the plasma supply rate, to estimate an average column of gas over the trailing hemisphere of about 3 x 10 to the 16th SO2/sq cm with exobase at about 1.4 Io radii.

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