Discovery of gaseous S2 in Io's Pele plume

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5469, 2000, Pages 1208-1210

  Spencer, John R ^a   Jessup, Kandis Lea ^b   McGrath, Melissa A ^c   Ballester, Gilda E ^b   Yelle, Roger ^d  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c STScI   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

IO; PLUME; SULFUR; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; GAS ANALYSIS; PHOTOLYSIS; PLUME; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VOLCANO; ASTRONOMY; GAS; MICROCLIMATE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROSCOPY;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GASES; JUPITER; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0034685540     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5469.1208     Document Type: Article

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