Galileo at Io: Results from high-resolution imaging

Science

Volumn 288, Issue 5469, 2000, Pages 1193-1198

  McEwen, A S ^a   Belton, M J S ^b   Breneman, H H ^c   Fagents, S A ^d   Geissier, P ^a   Greeley, R ^d   Head, J W ^e   Hoppa, G ^a   Jaeger, W L ^a   Johnson, T V ^c   Keszthelyi, L ^a   Klaasen, K P ^c   Lopes Gautier, R ^c   Magee, K P ^c   Milazzo, M P ^a   Moore, J M ^f   Pappalardo, R T ^e   Phillips, C B ^a   Radebaugh, J ^a   Schubert, G ^g   Schuster, P ^h   Simonelli, D P ⁱ   Sullivan, R ⁱ   Thomas, P C ⁱ   Turtle, E P ^a   Williams, D A ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

ⁱ Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; IMAGE DISPLAY; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISCOSITY; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANO;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; JUPITER; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0034685793     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5469.1193     Document Type: Article

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