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Atmospheric moons Galileo would have loved

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2010

Sushil K. Atreya
Sushil K. Atreya*
Affiliation:
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143, USA email: atreya@umich.edu
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In the spirit of the symposium and the theme of the session of this presentation, “Our solar system after Galileo, the grand vision,” I review briefly a relatively recently discovered phenomenon in the solar system – existence of atmospheres on certain moons, including Io, one of the four moons Galileo discovered four centuries ago. The origin of such atmospheres is discussed, and comparisons are made between various gassy moons.

Keywords

Solar system: generalplanets and satellites: individual (Enceladus, Ganymede, Io, Jupiter, Moon, Saturn, Neptune, Titan, Triton, Uranus)Sun: abundances
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 6 , Symposium S269: Galileo's Medicean Moons: their impact on 400 years of discovery , January 2010 , pp. 130 - 140
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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