7 papers
Lava Lakes on Io: crust age and implications for thermal output
Alessandro Mura, Rosaly M. C. Lopes, Federico Tosi +12
Recent observations by the JIRAM instrument onboard NASA's Juno mission have confirmed that many of Io's volcanic hot spots are active lava lakes, characterized by a colder central…
Analysis of Io's tidal response as a function of the properties of the partially molten layer
M. Paris, A. Mura, F. Zambon +11
Io's internal heat is generated by Jupiter-driven tidal dissipation and Laplace resonance. This energy partially melts the mantle, but the melt fraction, depth, and spatial distrib…
Conceptual framework for the application of deep neural networks to surface composition reconstruction from Mercury's exospheric data
Adrian Kazakov, Anna Milillo, Alessandro Mura +19
Surface information derived from exospheric measurements at planetary bodies complements surface mapping provided by dedicated imagers, offering critical insights into surface rele…
Synchronized Eruptions on Io: Evidence of Interconnected Subsurface Magma Reservoirs
A. Mura, R. Lopes, F. Nimmo +17
On December 27, 2024, Juno's JIRAM infrared experiment observed an unprecedented volcanic event on Io's southern hemisphere, covering a vast region of ~ 65,000 square km, near 73°…
Vertical and temporal H3+ structure at the auroral footprint of Io
A. Mura, A. Moirano, V. Hue +10
We report the first observation of the vertical and temporal structure of the H3+ emission at the auroral footprint of Io, as observed by Juno/JIRAM. The brightness vertical profil…
Widespread occurrence of lava lakes on Io observed from Juno
Alessandro Mura, Federico Tosi, Francesca Zambon +13
We report recent observations of lava lakes within patera on Io made by the JIRAM imager/spectrometer on board the Juno spacecraft, taken during close observation occurred in the e…