Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Io's
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Melissa A. McGrath; Michael J.S. Belton; John R. Spencer; Paola Sartoretti
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We report on the first successful, spatially resolved spectroscopic observations of Io's SO 2 atmosphere. Observations made with the Hubble Space Telescope Faint Object Spectrograph on 1 August 1996 using the 0.26 aperture have provided detections of SO 2 gas in absorption in three locations on the