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The spectral reflectance from 0.38 to 0.75 μm of a column of liquid sulfur has been measured at several temperatures between the melting point (~118°C) and 173°C. Below 160°C the spectral reflectance was observed to vary reversibly as a function of temperature, independent of the previous thermal history of the column. Once the temperature exceeded 160°C, the spectrum would not change given a subsequent decrease in temperature. The spectral reflectance of the liquid-sulfur column at all temperatures was very low (10–19%). Combining this information with Voyager spectrophotometry of Jupiter's satellite Io, it is concluded that liquid sulfur at any temperature on Io's surface would be classified as a “black area” according to the standards used by the Voyager imaging team in their spectrophotometric analysis (L. Soderblom, T. V. Johnson, D. Morrison, E. Danielson, B. L. Smith, J. Veverka, A. Cook, C. Sagan, P. Kupferman, D. Pieri, J. Mosher, C. Avis, J. Gradie, and T. Clancy (1980). Geophys. Res. Lett.7, 963–966).  相似文献   

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The wavelength dependence of the reflectivity of Io indicates the presence of two materials on the surface of this satellite of Jupiter. These materials are sulfur and an unspecified material (R1) which shows a wavelength dependence of its reflectivity for 0.3 μm < λ < 1.0 μm similar to the non-H2O frost spectrum of the rings of Saturn. A 60/40 admixture of these two spectra matches the observed reflection spectrum of Io from 0.3μm–3 μm, if the spectrum of R1 is featureless for λ > 1 μm. Sulfur will give rise to a posteclipse brightening. The variation with wavelength of the temperature dependence of the reflectivity of sulfur will allow an observational confirmation of the presence of sulfur on Io. The material R1 should show a large geometrical albedo. The translucency of sulfur is consistent with the polarization-phase curve to Io. The material R1 is also required to be translucent. The thermal conductivity of a cooled sulfur powder under vacuum was measured and found to agree with the value determined for the upper layer of Io from observations at 10 μm. It is shown that this agreement is not necessarily meaningful.  相似文献   

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Voyager 1 imaging data have been used to investigate the color and morphology of several radial flow-like features at Ra Patera, a broad volcanic structure at approximately 8° latitude and 325° longitude on the Galilean satellite Io (J1). It was found that downstream progressions of flow color and morphology are consistent with lava of a predominately sulfur composition cooling radiatively and erupting in the range of 470 to 520°K at effusion rates at 1010 to 1011 cm3/sec. This implies global resurfacing rates by volcanic flows on Io of the order of 1 cm/year. Calculated energy content and effusion rates for flows at Ra Patera, using the physical parameters of sulfur, are of the order of the largest known terrestial basaltic eruptions and are consistent with calculations of globally available energy.  相似文献   

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The mechanical properties of elemental sulfur are such that the upper crust of Io cannot be primarily sulfur. For heat flows in the range 100–1000 ergs cm?2, sec?1, sulfur becomes ductile within several hundred meters of the surface and would prevent the formation of calderas with depths greater than this. However, the one caldera for which precise depth data are available is 2 km deep, and this value may be typical. A study of the mechanical equilibrium of simple slopes shows that the depth to the zone of rapid ductile flow strongly controls the maximum heights for sulfur slopes. Sulfur scarps with heights greater than 1 km will fail for all heat flows greater than 180 ergs cm?2 sec?1 and slope angles greater than 22.5°. The observed relief on Io is inconsistent with that anticipated for a predominantly sulfur crust. However, a silicate crust with several percent sulfur included satisfies both the mechanical constraints and the observed presence of sulfur on Io.  相似文献   

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Voyager full-disk images of Io, available at solar phase angle of α = 2?29° and 101?159°, allow comparisons of the satellite's near-opposition photometric behavior with Earth-based results and the determination of the phase curve out to very high phase angles. The near-opposition data were reduced iteratively for self-consistent phase and rotation curves in each Voyager filter; the resulting phase coefficients, geometric albedos, and rotational lightcurves are consistent with Earth-based findings, except for a previously noted tendency for Voyager to yield somewhat redder spectral information. The derived near-opposition phase coefficients, ranging between 0.016 and 0.024 mag/ deg, decrease with increasing wavelength, a trend weakly noted in some Earth-based observations. The full, α = 2?159° phase curves allow the first direct determination of the phase integral of Io at several wavelengths: q rises from ≈0.7 in the ultraviolet to ≈0.8 in the orange. Combination of the Voyager phase integrals with Earth-based albedo information leads to a best estimate of the bolometric Bond albedo of 0.50 ± 0.10, a value consistent with, but slightly below, previous estimates.  相似文献   

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Independent evidence suggests that both sulfur and silicate materials exist on the surface of Io. Spectral data indicate the presence of sulfur compounds, some of which are suggested to be of fumarolic origin. Morphological evidence and inferences of the physical properties of some landforms suggest that silicate volcanism has occurred, which would involve temperatures ≥650°C. Because the liquidus of sulfur is only ~115°C, it is likely that sulfur in close proximity to “hot spots” or to active silicate volcanic areas on Io would be melted and mobilized as flows. The Mauna Loa sulfur flow may serve as an analog for such flows, as it consists of fumarolic sulfur that was melted as a consequence of a basaltic eruption and produced a small flow superimposed on silicate lavas.  相似文献   

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The available full-disk reflectance spectra of Io in the range 0.3 to 2.5 μm have been interpreted by comparison with new laboratory spectra of a wide variety of natural and synthetic mineral phases in order to determine a surface compositional model for Io that is consistent with Io's other known chemical and physical properties. Our results indicate that the dominant mineral phases are sulfates and free sulfur derived from them, which points toward a low temperature and initially water-rich surface assemblage. Our current preferred mineral phase mixture that best matches the Io data and is simultaneously most consistent with other constraints, consists of a fine-grained particulate mixture of free sulfur (55 vol%), dehydrated bloedite [Na2Mg(SO4)2·xH2O] (30 vol%) ferric sulfate [Fe2(SO4)3·xH2O] (15 vol%), and trace amounts of hematite [Fe2O3]. Other salts may be present, such as halite and sodium nitrate, as well as clay minerals. Such a model is consistent with a probable pre- and post-accretion thermal history of Io-forming material and Io's observed Na emission and other properties. These results further support the evaporite surface hypothesis of Fanale et al'; while not precluding the presence of certain silicate phases such as montmorillonite.The average surface of Io's leading hemisphere appears to contain less free sulfur and more salts and to be finer grained than that of the trailing hemisphere. Since Io is immersed in Jupiter's magnetosphere, irradiation damage effects from low-energy proton bombardment were studied. Irradiation damage of lattices is estimated to be a relatively minor but operative process on the surface of Io; irradiation darkening by sulfate reduction to free sulfur and by F-center production in salts may be partly responsible for the differences in albedo of leading and trailing hemispheres and equatorial and polar regions of Io, but slight regional differences in relative intrinsic phase concentration on the surface may likewise account for these global variations in albedo.Possible unusual surface properties predicted by this model include: posteclipse darkening in certain wavelenghts, limb brightening in certain wavelengths, and unusual surface electrical properties. Further refinement of Io's surface composition model and better understanding of surface irradiation effects will be possible when observational data in the range 0.20 to 0.30 μm are obtained and when improved spectra in the range 0.30 to 5.0 μm are obtained having increased spectral, spatial, and temporal resolution.  相似文献   

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One of the intrinsic properties of particulate sulfur allotropes is a change in UV-visible reflectivity with temperature change of the material. The surface of Io experiences temperature changes during eclipse which are sufficient to cause a detectable change in the spectral reflectivity of sulfur; thus, if the surface of Io is composed primarily of sulfur allotropes, a change in reflectivity at certain wavelengths should be observable shortly after eclipse reappearance. We observed four eclipse reappearances during July and August of 1983 and saw no posteclipse brightening effects in filter bands selected for sensitivity to color changes in sulfur. Our model of the brightness change for S8 (“yellow” sulfur) implies that this material covers less than 50% of Io's surface. Negative posteclipse brightening observations were also obtained with a filter chosen for the high contrast between SO2 frost and the average albedo of the surface of Io at that wavelength. We conclude that no significant condensation of optically thick SO2 occurred on the surface of Io during these eclipses.  相似文献   

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As part of a continuing series of experiments on the production of dark reddish organic solids, called tholins, by irradiation of cosmically abundant reducing gases, the synthesis from a simulated Titanian atmosphere of a tholin with a visible reflection spectrum similar to that of the high altitude aerosols responsible for the albedo and reddish color of Titan has been reported Sagan and Khare, 1981, Sagan and Khare, 1982, Orig. Life. 12, 280) and [C. Sagan, B. N. Khare, and J. Lewis, in press. In Saturn (M. S. Matthews and T. Gehrels, Eds.), Univ. of Arizona Press, Tucson]. The determination of the real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex refractive index of thin films of such tholin prepared by continuous D.C. discharge through a 0.9 N2/0.1 CH4 gas mixture at 0.2 mb are reported. For 250 A? ≤ γ ≤ 1000 μm, n and k have been determined from a combination of transmittance, specular reflectance, interferometric, Brewster angle, and ellipsometric polarization measurements; experimental uncertainties in n are estimated to be ±0.5, and in k ± 30%. Values of n(?1.65) and k (?0.004 to 0.08) in the visible range are consistent with deductions made by ground-based and spacecraft observations of Titan. Maximum values of k (?0.8) are near 1000 Å, and minimum values (?4 × 10?4) are near 1.5 μm. Many infrared absorption features are present in k(γ), including the 4.6-μm nitrile band.  相似文献   

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A molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is performed for the physical and chemical properties of solid and liquid Fe–S solutions using the embedded atom model (EAM) potential as applied to the internal structure of the Moon, Io, Europa, and Ganymede under the assumption that the satellites' cores can be described by a two-component iron–sulfur system. Calculated results are presented for the thermodynamic parameters including the caloric, thermal, and elastic properties (specific heat, thermal expansion, Grüneisen parameter, density, compression module, velocity of sound, and adiabatic gradient) of the Fe–S solutions at sulfur concentrations of 0–18 at %, temperatures of up to 2500 K, and pressures of up to 14 GPa. The velocity of sound, which increases as pressure rises, is weakly dependent on sulfur concentration and temperature. For the Moon’s outer Fe–S core (~5 GPa/2000 K), which contains 6–16 at % (3.5–10 wt %) sulfur, the density and the velocity of sound are estimated at 6.3–7.0 g/cm3 and 4000 ± 50 m/s, respectively. The MD calculations are compared with the interpretation of the Apollo observations (Weber et al., 2011) to show a good consistency of the velocity of P-waves in the Moon’s liquid core whereas the thermodynamic density of the Fe–S core is not consistent with the seismic models with ρ = 5.1–5.2 g/cm3 (Garcia et al., 2011; Weber et al., 2011). The revision the density values for the core leads to the revision of its size and mass. At sulfur concentrations of 3.5–10 wt %, the density of the Fe–S melt is 20–30% higher that the seismic density of the core. Therefore, the most likely radius of the Moon’s outer core must be less than 330 km (Weber et al., 2011) because, provided that the constraint on the Moon’s mass and moment of inertia is satisfied, an increase in the density of the core must lead to a reduction of its radius. For Jupiter’s Galilean moons Io, Europa, and Ganymede, constraints are obtained on the size, density, and sound velocity of the Fe–S liquid cores. The geophysical and geochemical characteristics of the internal structure of the Moon and Jupiter’s moons are compared. The calculations of the adiabatic gradient at the PT conditions for the Fe–S cores of the Moon, Io, Europa, and Ganymede suggest the top-down crystallization of the core (Fe-snow scenario).  相似文献   

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The spectrophotometric (0.39 < λ < 0.7 λm) properties of three particle-size fractions (diameters <10 λm, <150 λm, and 420–850 λm) of sulfur have been investigated in the laboratory. Particle size, temperature, thermal history, and scattering geometry are all shown to influence the spectral reflectance of the normal (S8) sulfur samples and an “orange-colored” S8 sample produced by quenching molten sulfur. A scattering law consisting of a linear combination of lunar-like and Lambertian terms adequately describes the data for all particle sizes. Where sulfur is darkest (λ < 0.45 λm), the reflectance decreases with increasing particle size, whereas where sulfur is brightest (λ > 0.45 λm) the reflectance increases with decreasing particle size. In reflected light, the long wavelength edge of the strong ultraviolet absorption retreats smoothly to shorter wavelengths with decreasing temperature at ~1.6Å/°K, a value lower than the 2.2Å/°K value previously reported for transmitted light. Near opposition, sulfur powders are found to follow closely a Minnaert limb darkening law except where the reflectance is low, i.e., in the strong ultraviolet absorption band of the larger particle size fractions. It is clear from our data that quantitative comparisons between disk-integrated observations of Io and laboratory measurements of flat samples of sulfur are not adequate unless temperature effects and changes in scattering geometry are included.  相似文献   

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This work deals with the optical constant characterization of Titan aerosol analogues or “tholins” produced with the PAMPRE experimental setup and deposited as thin films onto a silicon substrate. Tholins were produced in different N2–CH4 gaseous mixtures to study the effect of the initial methane concentration on their optical constants. The real (n) and imaginary (k) parts of the complex refractive index were determined using the spectroscopic ellipsometry technique in the 370–1000 nm wavelength range. We found that optical constants depend strongly on the methane concentrations of the gas phase in which tholins are produced: imaginary optical index (k) decreases with initial CH4 concentration from 2.3 × 10?2 down to 2.7 × 10?3 at 1000 nm wavelength, while the real optical index (n) increases from 1.48 up to 1.58 at 1000 nm wavelength. The larger absorption in the visible range of tholins produced at lower methane percentage is explained by an increase of the secondary and primary amines signature in the mid-IR absorption. Comparison with results of other tholins and data from Titan observations are presented. We found an agreement between our values obtained with 10% methane concentration, and Imanaka et al. (Imanaka, H., Khare, B.N., Elsila, J.E., Bakes, E.L.O., McKay, C.P., Cruikshank, D.P., Sugita, S., Matsui, T., Zare, R.N. [2004]. Icarus, 168, 344–366) values, in spite of the difference in the analytical method. This confirms a reliability of the optical properties of tholins prepared with various setups but with similar plasma conditions. Our comparison with Titan’s observations also raises a possible inconsistency between the mid-IR aerosol signature by VIMS and CIRS Cassini instruments and the visible Huygens-DISR derived data. The mid-IR VIMS and CIRS signatures are in agreement with an aerosol dominated by an aliphatic carbon content, whereas the important visible absorption derived from the DISR measurement seems to be incompatible with such an important aliphatic content, but more compatible with an amine-rich aerosol.  相似文献   

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The main gas-phase constituents of Titan's upper atmosphere, N2 and CH4, are photolyzed and radiolyzed by solar photons and magnetospheric electrons, respectively. The primary products of these chemical interactions evolve to heavier organic compounds that are likely to associate into the particles of haze layers that hide Titan's surface. The different theories and models that have been put forward to explain the characteristics and properties of the haze composites require a knowledge of their optical properties, which are determined by the complex refractive index. We present a new set of values for refractive index n and extinction coefficient k calculated directly from the transmittance and reflectance curves exhibited by a laboratory analogue of Titan's aerosols in the 200-900 nm range. Improvements in the aerosol analogue quality have been made. The effects of variables such as the uncertainty in sample thickness, aerosol porosity, and amount of scattered light on the final n and k values are assessed and discussed. Within the studied wavelength domain, n varies from 1.53 to 1.68 and k varies from 2.62×10−4 to 2.87×10−2. These final n and k values should be considered as a new reference to modelers who compute the properties of Titan's aerosols in trying to explain the atmospheric dynamics and surface characteristics.  相似文献   

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Io: Thermal models and chemical evolution   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
A combined thermal and chemical evolution model of Io is presented, outlining limits on the possible starting materials, heating history, chemical history, and present state of Io. Our best scenario starts with Io being accreted from material in a proto-Jovian nebula which condensed between 400–600°K. Radionuclides and tidal heating would lead to large-scale convection within Io and chemical reactions leading to the outgassing of water and methane. Reactions between Fe0FeS and water, at least near the surface, go to completion, resulting in all Fe being oxidized with elemental sulfur producing a low-conductivity crust. In the deep interior, these reactions may not completely exhaust Fe metal, and an FeS-rich core may be formed.  相似文献   

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《Planetary and Space Science》1999,47(10-11):1377-1387
The Galileo plasma wave instrument has detected intense electromagnetic wave emissions approximately centered on the second and fourth harmonics of the local proton gyrofrequency during the close equatorial flyby of Io on 7 December 1995. Their frequencies suggest these emissions are likely generated locally by an instability driven by non thermal protons. Given that this process occurs close to Io, we suggest that hydrogen-bearing compounds, escaping from Io, are broken up/ionized near this moon, thereby releasing protons. Newly-created protons are thus injected in the Jovian corotating plasma with the corotation velocity, leading to the formation of a ring in velocity space. Several electromagnetic wave–particle instabilities can be driven by a ring of newborn protons. Given that the corotating plasma is sub-Alfvénic relative to Io, the magnetosonic mode cannot be destabilized by this proton ring. The full dispersion relation is studied using the WHAMP program (Rönmark, 1982. Rep. 179. Kiruna Geophys. Inst., Kiruna, Sweden) as well as a new algorithm that allows us to fit the distribution function of newborn protons in a more realistic way. This improvement in the ring model is necessary to explain the relative narrowness of the observed spectral peaks. The measured E/B ratio is also used to identify the relevant instability and wave mode: this mode results from the coupling between the ion Bernstein and the ion cyclotron mode (IBCW). To our knowledge this mode has not yet been studied. From the instability threshold an estimate of the density of newborn protons around Io is thus given; at about 2 Io radii from the surface and 40°W longitude from the sub-Jupiter meridian, this density is found to be ≥0.5% of the local plasma density (∼4000 cm−3), namely ≥20 cm−3. Assuming a stationary pickup process and a rn distribution of pickup protons within several Io radii of Io’s wake, this implies that more than 1026 protons/s are created around Io. The ultimate origin of these protons is an open issue.  相似文献   

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Two classes of volcanic plumes on Io   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
Comparison of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 images of the south polar region of Io has revealed that a major volcanic eruption occured there during the period between the two spacecraft encounters. An annular deposit ~1400 km in diameter formed around the Aten Patera caldera (311°W, 48°S), the floor of which changed from orange to red-black. The characteristics of this eruption are remarkably similar to those described earlier for an eruption centered on Surt caldera (338°W, 45°N) that occured during the same period, also at high latitude, but in the north. Both volcanic centers were evidently inactive during the Voyager 1 and 2 encounters but were active sometime between the two. The geometric and colorimetric characteristics, as well as scale of the two annular deposits, are virtually identical; both resemble the surface features formed by the eruption of Pele (255°W, 18°S). These three very large plume eruptions suggest a class of eruption distinct from that of six smaller plumes observed to be continously active by both Voyagers 1 and 2. The smaller plumes, of which Prometheus is the type example, are longer-lived, deposit bright, whitish material, erupt at velocities of ~0.5 km sec?1, and are concentrated at low latitudes in an equatorial belt around the satellite. The very large Pele-type plumes, on the other hand, are relatively short-lived, deposit darker red materials, erupt at ~1.0 km sec?1, and (rather than restricted to a latitudinal band) are restricted in longitude from 240° to 360°W. Both direct thermal infrared temperature measurements and the implied color temperatures for quenched liquid sulfur suggest that hot spot temperatures of ~650°K are associated with the large plumes and temperatures <400°K with the small plumes. The typical eruption duration of the small plumes is at least several years; that of the large plumes appears to be of the order of days to weeks. The two classes therefore differ by more than two orders of magnitude in duration of eruption. Based on uv, visible, and infrared spectra, the small plumes seem to contain and deposit SO2 in their annuli whereas the large plumes apparently do not. Two other plumes that occur at either end of the linear feature Loki may be intermediate or hybrid between the two classes, exhibiting attributes of both. Additionally, Loki occurs in the area of overlap in the regional distributions of the two plume classes. Two distinct volcanic systems involving different volatiles may be responsible for the two classes. We propose that the discrete temperatures associated with the two classes are a direct reflection of sulfur's peculiar variation in viscosity with temperature. Over two temperature ranges (~400 to 430°K and >650°K), sulfur is a low-viscosity fluid (orange and black, respectively); at other temperatures it is either solid or has a high viscosity. As a result, there will be two zones in Io's crust in which liquid sulfur will flow freely: a shallow zone of orange sulfur and a deeper zone of black sulfur. A low-temperature system driven by SO2 heated to 400 to 400°K by the orange sulfur zone seems the best model for the small plumes; a system driven by sulfur heated to >650°K by hot or even molten silicates in the black sulfur zone seems the best explanation for the large plume class. The large Pele-type plumes are apparently concentrated in a region of the satellite in which a thinner sulfur-rich crust overlies the tidally heated silicate lithosphere, so the black sulfur zone may be fairly shallow in this region. The Prometheus-type plumes are possibly confined to the equatorial belt by some process that concentrates SO2 fluid in the equatorial crust.  相似文献   

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The dispersion relation for the near perpendicular propagation of the electromagnetic ion cyclotron wave, having a wavelength much larger than the ion Larmour radius rL and a frequency ω ≈ Ω++ is the ion cyclotron frequency), has been derived for a plasma consisting of a hot and a cold ion component. The hot ions and electrons have been described by loss-cone distribution functions; an ordering of the parameters was used to derive the cold ion contributions. Two modes, one with an increasing frequency and another with a constant frequency can propagate in the plasma. The two modes interact resulting in an instability of the former in the wavelength range kr = 0.4?0.6 (for nC/nH = 0) and from krL = 0.5?0.8 (for nC/nH = 1.0) for a propagation angle of 70°. The instability of the mode is found to decrease with increasing cold ion densities and propagation angles.  相似文献   

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Using the spectrophotometric measurements data of 2015, the relation of values of the imaginary part n i of aerosol refractive index was determined for latitudinal belts 17° N, 33° N, 49° N, and 66° N of Saturn’s disc. A steadily decreasing tendency in the relative n i values when moving northward from the equatorial region of the disk to the latitude 49° N, inclusive, was revealed. The n i values in the 17° N and 49° N belts were found to differ significantly from other latitudinal regions of the giant planet’s disk.  相似文献   

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Radiation damage and luminescence, caused by magnetospheric charged particles, have been suggested by several authors as mechanisms for explaining some of the peculiar spectral/albedo features of Io. We have pursued this possibility by measuring the uv-visual spectral reflectance and luminescent efficiency of several proposed Io surface constituents during 2 to 10-keV proton irradiation at room temperature and at low temperature (120 < T < 140°K). The spectral reflectance of NaCl and KCl during proton irradiation exhibits the well-known F-center absorption bands at 4580 and 5560 Å. Na2SO4 shows a generalized darkening which increases toward longer wavelengths. NaNO3 shows a spectral reflectance change indicative of the partial alteration of NaNo3 to NaNo2. NaNO2 shows no change. The luminescent efficiencies of NaCl and KCl are ~10?4 at 300°K and increase by one-half order of magnitude at ~130°K. The efficiencies of K2CO3, Na2CO3, Na2SO4, and NaNO3 are 10?4, 10?4, 10?5 and 10?6, respectively, at 300°K and they all decrease by one-half order of magnitude at ~130°K. These results indicate that magnetospheric proton irradiation of Io could cause spectral features in its observed ultraviolet and visible reflection spectrum if salts such as those studied here are present on its surface. However, because the magnitude of these spectral effects is dependent on competing factors such as surface temperature, incident particle energy flux, solar bleaching effects, and trace element abundance, we are unable at this time to make a quantitative estimate of the strength of these spectral effects on Io. The luminescent efficiencies of pure samples that we have studied in the laboratory suggest that charged-particle induced luminescence from Io's surface might be observable by a spacecraft such as Voyager when viewing Io's dark side.  相似文献   

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Photometry obtained in 1973 on the uvby system yields high-precision rotational light curves for Io, Europa, and Ganymede at a mean phase angle of ~6°. By combining our observations with photometry obtained by others over a broader range of phase angle, we alsi derive improved values for the phase coefficients and opposition surges of the four Galilean satellites. The values of V(1, 0) obtained by linear extrapolation to zero phase are accurate to ±0.03 magnitudes. We also derive the colors of the sun of the uvby system and use these to obtain albedos of the satellites in four colors.  相似文献   

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