Melting of Io by Tidal Dissipation
- 2 March 1979
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 203 (4383), 892-894
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.203.4383.892
Abstract
The dissipation of tidal energy in Jupiter's satellite Io is likely to have melted a major fraction of the mass. Consequences of a largely molten interior may be evident in pictures of Io's surface returned by Voyager I.Keywords
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