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White clouds on Io?

Rogers, J. H.

This paper reports rapid changes in the distribution of bright white patches in one region of Io, close to the subjovian point and the caldera Karei Patera. A stable pattern of white patches in this region was recorded by Voyager in 1979. A strikingly different pattern was shown in the first Galileo-G1 image (1996 June). However, the patterns in a…

The comet collision with Jupiter: III. The largest impact complex at high resolution

Rogers, J. H.; Miyazaki, I.; Limaye, S. S.

Comet fragments D, G, R, and S all impacted on Jupiter within an 180 range of longitude, and produced a single great dark complex. Using high-resolution maps derived from Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based images, we compile a continuous record of this complex. Many dark spots and streamers developed within it. They did not follow the normal …