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Published March 27, 1981 | public
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Volcanic Origin of the Eruptive Plumes on Io

Cook, A. F.
Shoemaker, E. M.
Smith, B. A.
Danielson, G. E.
Johnson, T. V.
Synnott, S. P.
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Abstract

A quadruple long exposure of lo in eclipse exhibits faint auroral emission from the eruptive plumes. No luminous spots in the vents, predicted by Gold, were observed. Heat from the interior of lo appears to be the predominant source of energy in the plumes.

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© 1981 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 15 December 1980. We thank S. A. Collins, C. Hansen, and G. Dimit of the Voyager Project for significant help in this study. This report presents results of one phase of research supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, under contract NAS 7-100 and of research supported by JPL at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, the California Institute of Technology, the U.S. Geological Survey at Flagstaff, and the University of Arizona under that contract.

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