Search for temperature-related albedo changes in nightside and posteclipse images of Io

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Feb 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994icar..107..375s&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 107, no. 2, p. 375-387

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Albedo, Astronomical Photometry, Eclipses, Io, Night, Sulfur Dioxides, Surface Temperature, Diurnal Variations, Image Processing, Jupiter (Planet), Radio Astronomy, Temperature Dependence, Jupiter, Satellites, Io, Albedo, Thermal Effects, Nightside, Brightness, Spacecraft Observations, Voyager Missions, Diurnal Variations, Temperature, Surface, Sulfur, Sulfur Dioxide, Frost, Deposits, Color, Analysis, Optical Properties, Techniques

Scientific paper

Using an image-summing process that increases the visibility of Jupiter-lit surface features in Voyager images, we have produced the best-ever violet-filter image of the nightside of Io and the best-ever nightside/dayside brightness ratio map of this jovian moon. The ratio map shows no convincing evidence, on either global or local scales, of diurnal temperature-dependent albedo variations. We have also taken an image-ratioing technique developed by O'Shaughnessy et al. (1989), which those authors applied to Voyager violet-filter observations of one Io eclipse reappearance, and extended it to two other, higher-resolution Voyager posteclipse imaging sequences. In none of three imaging sequences do we find any isolated surface regions that convincingly exhibit posteclipse temperature-related albedo variations. These negative results suggest that on Io, pure cyclo-octasulfur (S8), and transient nighttime or in-eclipse deposits of SO2 frost, are at best limited to isolated areas smaller than the resolution of the images in use (i.e., smaller than a few tens of kilometers in size). Such limits are consistent with (1) the negative results reported by the majority of telescopic observers who have searched for posteclipse brightening of Io, (2) indications that physical processes in the ionian surface environment will change any S8 into other allotropes of sulfur, and (3) suggestions that Io's atmosphere is too thin to allow the deposition of transient, optically thick SO2 frost layers at nighttime or during eclipse.

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