Europa’s Sodium and Potassium Exosphere during Juno’s Flyby
Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is enveloped in gaseous sodium and potassium that resonantly scatter sunlight as optical emission lines. The High Resolution Echelle Spectrograph on the Keck I telescope has spatially mapped these alkalis contemporaneously with Juno’s PJ45 flyby. Beyond 3 Europa radii, wher...
| Published in: | The Planetary Science Journal |
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| Main Authors: | , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2025-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/adeb52 |