Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Sep 7 2006, 09:26 PM
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http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00000692/
Rosaly Lopes has a new blog post on the Planetary Society blog on the mysteries still surrounding Everyone's Favorite Moon (and if it isn't your favorite moon, then may a giant, falling chunk of komatiite greet you ). She aludes to the upcoming observations by New Horizons to study surface changes and volcanic activity on Io, and to an upcoming book, on Io. The book, Io After Galileo, is currently on Amazon, but rest assured, it will be available until early 2007. here is a link to the book's Amazon.com page: http://www.amazon.com/Galileo-Springer-Pra...TF8&s=books -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Jul 15 2008, 12:25 PM
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This would seem to be the best place to ask this question - does Io have any officially recognised impact craters at the available resolution achieved by the Galileo probe?
Having searched the net, all the resources available state that Io has "very few if any" or "almost none" or "none" I've been unable to find any images which unequivocally show an impact structure. The only other solid body so far imaged reasonably closely which shows none at all is Atlas, and that is presumably due to continuing accretion of ring particles, and the shielding effect of the F-ring for projectiles coming in equatorially to Saturn. |
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