IO: Could SO2 condensation/sublimation cause the sometimes reported post-eclipse brightening?
Abstract
Io’s sometimes-reported post eclipse brightening may be caused by SO2 frost formation during eclipse and sublimation on emergence. The known properties of SO2 can be used to explain quantitatively the amplitude of brightening and its duration, and (qualitatively) its variability.
- Publication:
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Geophysical Research Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1029/GL008i006p00625
- Bibcode:
- 1981GeoRL...8..625F
- Keywords:
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- Brightness;
- Condensation;
- Io;
- Solar Eclipses;
- Sublimation;
- Sulfur Dioxides;
- Frost;
- Half Life;
- Planetary Atmospheres;
- Planetary Radiation;
- JUPITER;
- SATELLITES;
- SULFUR DIOXIDE;
- CONDENSATION;
- DATA;
- DISTRIBUTION;
- SUBLIMATION;
- ECLIPSES;
- BRIGHTNESS;
- ATMOSPHERE;
- VAPOR PRESSURE;
- FROST;
- KINETICS;
- LONGITUDE;
- LATITUDE;
- TEMPERATURES;
- IO;
- ABUNDANCE;
- VOLCANISM;
- SATURATION;
- Planetology: Atmospheres of planets