IUE's detection of tenuous SO2 frost on Ganymede and its rapid time variability
- 15 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 25 (16) , 3117-3120
- https://doi.org/10.1029/98gl02386
Abstract
International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) observations of Ganymded demonstrate decade length or less temporal variations at a few discreet trailing side longitude regions. The temporal changes are seen in comparisons of IUE spectra from 1984–1986 with new IUE observations from 1996. Variations are observed on the trailing side associated with the new detection of SO2 frost. A distinctive SO2 frost spectral signature at 0.32 µm is detected in the 1984–1986 spectra of trailing side regions from 225° to 285° which are absent in corresponding 1996 measurements.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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