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Io's Escaping Atmosphere: Continuing the Legacy of Surprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2010

Nicholas M. Schneider
Nicholas M. Schneider*
Affiliation:
LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 80309, USA email: nick.schneider@lasp.colorado.edu
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Abstract

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The discovery of Io and her fellow Medicean Stars clearly altered the course of science as a whole. It is equally clear that the discovery of Io's tidal heating has altered the course of planetary science. One of the most directly observable consequences of Io's tidal heating is the prodigious escape of a ton per second of volcanically-supplied gases. I will review how studies of Io's escaping atmosphere since 1972 have advanced our deep understanding of Io itself, and helped formulate our perspective on planetary evolution in our solar system and beyond.

Keywords

Planets and satellites: Io
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S269: Galileo's Medicean Moons: their impact on 400 years of discovery , January 2010 , pp. 80 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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