Io Images from Keck, Gemini Telescopes (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Io Images from Keck, Gemini Telescopes

Caption

Images of Io at different near-infrared wavelengths. The name of the filter used is indicated in the black box at the start of each section. The bright spots are thermal emissions from Io's myriad volcanoes. Note the increasing number of hot spots detected at longer wavelengths, i.e. towards the bottom of the figure.

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Katherine de Kleer and Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley

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