Io, Still A Mystery Moon Options

[volcanopele]

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

[volcanopele]

I have that book too. It is okay, but it makes vexgizmo look not so nice... Could have done with more science, and less "Rick Greenberg's fight against the Man". "Io after Galileo" is more like a collection of overview papers, presenting the current state of knowledge, with each chapter written by a different set of authors. "Europa: The Ocean Moon" is more about Rick Greenberg's argument that the Europa icy crust is thin, and that all other arguments are just the status quo story by the establishment...