Far-ultraviolet imaging spectroscopy of Io's atmosphere with HST/STIS

Science

Volumn 283, Issue 5400, 1999, Pages 353-357

  Roesler, F L ^a   Moos, H W ^b   Oliversen, R J ^c   Woodward Jr , R C ^a   Retherford, K D ^b   Scherb, F ^a   McGrath, M A ^d   Smyth, W H ^e   Feldman, P D ^b   Strobel, D F ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e Atmosph and Environmental Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; HUBBLE TELESCOPE PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; JUPITER; MAGNETICS; OXYGEN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SULFUR;

SIGANUS;

EID: 0033555851     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.283.5400.353     Document Type: Article

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50. We thank D. Hall for valuable assistance in planning this experiment, and J. Cortiss and M. Freed for long hours spent in data reduction. We also gratefully acknowledge the cooperation and assistance of our co-workers on the STIS Instrument Development Team, and the many people at the Space Telescope Science Institute whose work made these observations possible. We thank anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript. A portion of D.F.S.'s research was accomplished at the Observatoire de Paris-Meudon; he thanks Département de Recherche Spatiale for its hospitality. This work was supported by NASA grants NAGW-3319, NAG-4168, and NAGW-6546, and NASA contracts NAS5-30131 and NAS5-30403.