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Lava Lakes on Io: Crust Age and Implications for Thermal Output

  • Authors: Alessandro Mura, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Federico Tosi, Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Jani Radebaugh, Francesca Zambon, Matteo Paris, Scott Bolton, Alberto Adriani, Roberto Sordini, Andrea Cicchetti, Raffaella Noschese, Giuseppe Piccioni, Christina Plainaki, Giuseppe Sindoni

Alessandro Mura et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Left: gray circles represent the spectral power in the M-band (centered at approximately 4.78 μm and with 0.5 μm of bandwidth) in GW/μm on the x-axis, plotted against the total power in GW on the y-axis. For comparison, the dashed line indicates the empirical relationship employed by Davies & Veeder (2023) and J. E. Perry et al. (2025): y = 23.702x0.8838, where y is the total thermal emission in GW and x is the 4.8 μm spectral power in GW/μm. Circles are sized according to the area of the patera/lake. Red circles/dots are cases where the estimation is less reliable (see the discussion and Table 2 for details). Right: same, plotting the total power in GW on the y-axis as a function of the area of the patera/lake on the x-axis.

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