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Steve Iannetti GweiLo
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 10:26 am Post subject: Re: You think all moons are grey??? |
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Is it Europa ? One of Jupiter's moons ?
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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
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markhewer
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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
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Steve Iannetti GweiLo
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debbie mannas
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:41 am Post subject: wow |
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stunning. Looks like silk brocaded randomly.
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MIKE BURN Generally Crazy Guy
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:46 am Post subject: Re: wow |
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I am always excited about what the Universe has for us earthlings to offer
Here's some english description of IO:
Quote: Jupiter's moon Io [EYE-oh or EE-oh] is one of the most exotic places in the solar system. It is the most volcanic body known, with lava flows, lava lakes, and giant calderas covering its sulfurous landscape. It has billowing volcanic geysers spewing sulfurous plumes to over 500 kilometers high. Its mountains are much taller than those on Earth, reaching heights of 16 kilometers (52,000 feet).
Io orbits closer to Jupiter's cloud tops than the moon does to Earth. This places Io within an intense radiation belt that bathes the satellite with energetic electrons, protons, and heavier ions. As the Jovian magnetosphere rotates, it sweeps past Io and strips away about 1,000 kilograms (1 ton) per second of volcanic gases and other materials. This produces a neutral cloud of atoms orbiting with Io as well as a huge, doughnut shaped torus of ions that glow in the ultraviolet.
The torus's heavy ions migrate outward, and their pressure inflates the Jovian magnetosphere to more than twice its expected size. Some of the more energetic sulfur and oxygen ions fall along the magnetic field into the planet's atmosphere, resulting in auroras. Io acts as an electrical generator as it moves through Jupiter's magnetic field, developing 400,000 volts across its diameter and generating an electric current of 3 million amperes that flows along the magnetic field to the planet's ionosphere.
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Rev9Volts
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: wow |
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hioly moly mike! thanks for it all.
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