Io DPS Talks

The Curious Case of Reiden Patera

A Few Quick Notes
I am going to try to writeup that Io Chemistry post up tonight or tomorrow morning, but in the meantime, here are a few quick notes.  First, the Carnival of Space #128 is now up at the AART Scope Blog.  Check it out to see what has been going on in the world of astronomy and space science this past week.  Second, ugordan over at Unmannedspaceflight.com has posted a few newly processed images from the Cassini flyby of Jupiter.  Some nice false color of the Pele and Tvashtar plu

The Carnival of Space: Issue #126
Welcome to the 126th Edition of the Carnival of Space!  Each week, the Carnival of Space is hosted by different blogs and provides links to the best in the space and astronomy blogosphere so everyone can be kept up-to-date.  We are this week's hosts!  For earlier editions of the CoS, check out the Carnival of Space archive at the Universe Today. Now,

Io @ the AGU 2009 Fall Meeting
The abstracts for this year's AGU Fall Meeting have been posted online.  The American Geophysical Union has two main meetings each year in the spring and fall.  This year's fall meeting is in San Francisco, California (as it is every year) and takes place between December 14 and 18.  Most of the Io-related talks and posters are in the oral and poster sections of the "The Galilean Satellites: 400 Years of Discover" session.  In the oral session, which takes place on Friday, December 18, there are four invited talks that provide an overview of our knowledge of the geol

Paper: Geologic Mapping of the volcano Prometheus
A new, Io-related paper was published in the October 30 issue Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research titled, "Volcanic history, geologic analysis and map of the Prometheus Patera region on Io. The authors of this paper are Giovanni Leone, Ashley Davies, Lionel Wilson, David Williams, Laszlo Keszthelyi, Windy Jaeger, and Elizabeth Turtle.  In this paper, the authors pre

Tohil Mons movie @ Stereo Moons
LPI researcher Paul Schenk has posted a set of four movies showing examples of topography from each of the four Galilean satellites on his blog, Stereo Moons.  The release of these movies is meant to be part of the commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the discovery of these moons by the ast