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posed to sulfur volcanism. With these new data available, it is now necessary to consider the fluid and thermodynamic Analyses of thermal infrared outbursts from the jovian satelbehavior of lava eruption and emplacement in order to lite Io indicate that at least some of these volcanic events are due to silicate lava. Analysis of the January 9, 1990 outburst explain the temporal evolution of these outbursts, and indicates that this was an active eruption consisting of a large reevaluate the role active volcanism plays in the Io therlava flow (with mass eruption rate of order 10 5 m 3 sec ؊1 ) and mal budget. a sustained area at silicate liquidus temperatures. This is inter- The largest class of outbursts on Io are characterized by preted as a series of fire fountains along a rift zone. A possible a large increase in the 4.8 Ȑm emission over a short period alternative scenario is that of an overflowing lava lake with of time (i.e., hours to days). The first report of such an extensive fire fountaining. The January 9, 1990 event is unique event was the pre-Voyager 5 Ȑm enhancement reported as multispectral observations with respect to time were obby Witteborn et al. (1979). Other even

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Author

Ashley Gerard Davies

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Inc.; Elsevier BV; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0019-1035)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)