High-temperature silicate volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5373, 1998, Pages 87-90

  McEwen, A S ^a   Keszthelyi, L ^a   Spencer, J R ^b   Schubert, G ^c   Matson, D L ^d   Lopes Gautier, R ^d   Klaasen, K P ^d   Johnson, T V ^d   Head, J W ^e   Geissler, P ^a   Fagents, S ^f   Davies, A G ^d   Carr, M H ^g   Breneman, H H ^d   Belton, M J S ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICATE;

IO; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLCANO;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; GALILEO PROJECT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HEAT; JUPITER; MINERALS; SILICATES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 0344766744     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5373.87     Document Type: Article

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