Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
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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 ![]() 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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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 ![]() |
To be honest, ground-based observatories can do a better job. That being said, the IR instrument on Juno could acquire useful data over Io's polar regions.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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I would imagine that some of the plumes might look neat at a high phase angle even at such low resolution. I wonder if it would be possible to take some framelets of Io on a few successive rotations for stacking purposes to reduce noise and maximize usability. And it would seem that at its closest, should that be looking down at a pole, it would still be moderately useful for looking at albedo changes in those foreshortened regions.
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