Oct 1998
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1998jbaa..108..279r&link_type=abstract
Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.108, no.5, p.279-282
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This paper reports rapid changes in the distribution of bright white patches in one region of Io, close to the subjovian point and the caldera Karei Patera. A stable pattern of white patches in this region was recorded by Voyager in 1979. A strikingly different pattern was shown in the first Galileo-G1 image (1996 June). However, the patterns in another Galileo-G1 and several Galileo-G2 images (1996 September) were similar although not identical to that seen by Voyager. Hubble Space Telescope images in 1994 and 1995 also resembled the Voyager pattern. The changes in the first Galileo image are not easily attributable to differences in lighting and viewing angles, and appear to be real physical changes, which occurred over a matter of days during the Galileo-G1 encounter. They also do not have the characteristics expected of surface deposits. I suggest that some of these white patches may be drifting opaque white clouds. They may be emitted from volcanic sources which have recently been reported in this area.
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