One technique scientists use to monitor Io's active volcanism and atmospheric processes is by observing the moon while it is in eclipse....

Back in mid-June, Space.com had a news article posted on their website titled, " Volcanic Moon of Jupiter Is Smelly and Bizarre ."...

Another day, another Io atmosphere paper.  Today, we take a look at a paper by Arielle Moullet, Mark A. Gurwell, Emmanuel Lellouch, and Raph...

Yesterday, we talked about a model of Io's atmosphere using the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method.  Today we look at another...

Okay, it is about time I finished up my coverage of the abstracts covering Io science for next week's Lunar and Planetary Science Confer...

In November, the paper " Multi-wavelength simulations of atmospheric radiation from Io with a 3-D spherical-shell backward Monte Carlo ...

Sorry for the hiatus there is posts over the last couple of months.  I've just been a bit busy with Cassini plus I wanted to take a bit ...

While normally I remember to cover the big four conferences for planetary science each year (LPSC in March, AGU in May and December, and DPS...

The science program as well as the abstracts for this year's DPS meeting were posted online a few weeks ago. DPS 2009 will be taking ...

Last week, a new paper was published in press (the paper has been approved for publication, but hasn't found a slot in the dead-tree ver...

News has been pretty quiet lately, but here are some quick notes: As has been pointed out to me by Michael New, the lead Discovery Program S...