The electrical conductivity of Io |
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| Authors: | S.F. Dermott |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Geophysics and Planetary Physics School of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England |
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| Abstract: | If Io has a thin crust of ice [this possibility has recently been suggested by Lewis (1971)] then the electrical resistance of the satellite is determined by an outer layer of thickness ∼8 km and is higher by a factor ∼1015 than that needed to account for the modulation of Jupiter's decametric radio emission in the unipolar inductor model of Goldreich and Lynden-Bell. The modulation, however, could possibly be accounted for if the surface composition of Io is chondritic or if it has an ionosphere. |
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