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Significance of absorption features in Io's IR reflectance spectrum

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Absorption features in Io's reflectance spectrum suggest that frozen SO2 molecules are present on the surface of Io as free frost; this may have important implications for Io's atmosphere.

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  1. Space Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91103

    Fraser P. Fanale

  2. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822

    R. Hamilton Brown, Dale P. Cruikshank & Roger N. Clake

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139

    Roger N. Clake

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Fanale, F., Brown, R., Cruikshank, D. et al. Significance of absorption features in Io's IR reflectance spectrum. Nature 280, 761–763 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/280761a0

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