High-temperature hot spots on Io as seen by the Galileo solid state imaging (SSI) experiment

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 1997, Pages 2443-2446

  McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Simonelli, Damon P ^b   Senske, David R ^c   Klaasen, Kenneth P ^c   Keszthelyi, Laszlo ^a   Johnson, Torrence V ^c   Geissler, Paul E ^a   Carr, Michael H ^d   Belton, Michael J S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; SPACE PROBES; VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE SILICATE VOLCANISM; GALILEO SOLID STATE IMAGING (SSI) EXPERIMENT; IO HOT SPOTS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

GALILEO; HOT SPOT; IO; SOLID STATE IMAGING;

EID: 0031252032     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01956     Document Type: Article

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