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Optical Line Emission from IO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Robert A. Brown
Robert A. Brown*
Affiliation:
Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.

Abstract

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In early summer of 1972, we discovered an anomalous brightness in the spectrum of Io near the sodium D-lines. This effect is revealed to be time-varying emission by free sodium atoms on Io.

Type
Part III Outer Planets and Their Satellites
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 65: Exploration of the Planetary System , 1974 , pp. 527 - 531
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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