Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
Io, Still A Mystery Moon |
May 29 2016, 06:00 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
II believe that these series of images was the one where Linda Moribito noticed the faint eruptive plume from Pele and discovered Io's volcanic activity. Io's activity was detected in an optical navigation long exposure image taken after the flyby (and thus showing the nightside of Io) |
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May 29 2016, 06:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 306 Joined: 4-October 14 Member No.: 7273 |
Io's activity was detected in an optical navigation long exposure image taken after the flyby (and thus showing the nightside of Io) Ah, thanks for the correction. I guess that makes this a pre-discovery observation then. I'm a bit amazed it wasn't noticed earlier, then! |
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Dec 15 2023, 01:41 AM
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Swedish amateur astronomy Jesper Sandberg identified the first possible impact crater ever found on Io, while studying Galileo imagery of the moon.
Poster presentation at AGU 2023 (grabbed from twitter) |
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Dec 15 2023, 03:55 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10256 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
That is great! A very nice discovery.
Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
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Dec 15 2023, 08:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Now to bet on how long it lasts....
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Dec 15 2023, 11:24 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2256 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
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Dec 16 2023, 03:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 291 |
Close up shot of the possible crater - from an article on the discovery
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Jun 5 2024, 03:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Incredible images from ground-based observations (rivaling Juno's distant flybys!)
QUOTE Study co-author Ashley Davies, a principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the new image taken by SHARK-VIS is so rich in detail that it has allowed the team to identify a major resurfacing event in which the plume deposit around a prominent volcano known as Pele, located in Io's southern hemisphere close to the equator, is being covered by eruption deposits from Pillan Patera, a neighboring volcano. A similar eruption sequence was observed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which explored the Jupiter system between 1995 and 2003. Paper here: https://www.lbto.org/wp-content/uploads/202..._GRL_108609.pdf |
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