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Evolution of the Io footprint brightness I: Far-UV observations

Saur, J.; Bonfond, B.; Clarke, J. T. +6 more

The Io footprint (IFP) is a set of auroral spots and an extended tail resulting from the strong interaction between Io and the Jovian magnetosphere. For the first time, we present measurements of the brightness and precipitated power for each individual spot, using the image database gathered from 1997 to 2009 with the Hubble Space Telescope in th…