Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Sep 7 2006, 09:26 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3233 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
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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Sep 8 2006, 11:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Speaking of Io mysteries: Remember the 1981 SF film Outland, which took place on
a mining colony on that moon? In the station manager's office was a large globe of Io on his desk. I want to know the following: 1. Who made it? 2. How accurate was it for the time (just after the Voyagers)? 3. What became of it? http://www.paper-dragon.com/rns/outland/index_.html http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/html/outland.html http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/Rick/outland.htm -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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