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Before we continue our tour of ice worlds, we step back and look at two characteristics that may be shared by many of them as a system: cryovolcanoes (in this chapter) and subsurface oceans (Chap. 7). These forces may play an important role in many of the worlds we are about to survey (Fig. 6.1).
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Volcanic structures were first confirmed by the radar-mapping Soviet Veneras 15 and 16 in 1983, and by NASA’s Magellan in 1994.
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Even Io, fastest of the Galileans, falls victim to Jupiter’s magnetospheric tidal wave of radiation about five times during each of its 42-h days. The moon is continually soaked in radiation, but its deadly levels rise and fall.
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This situation is the opposite concerning cratering; the leading hemisphere of many moons is more heavily cratered than the trailing, because it faces into the direction of travel, and of the incoming meteor debris.
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Initially known as “Triple Bands,” these pathways take on many forms beyond their initially recognized triple-banded structure.
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In Greek mythology, Rhadamanthys was the judge presiding over Elysion, site of an idyllic afterlife.
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See, for example, Moore and Ahern (1983) and Smith et al. (1981).
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Carroll, M. (2019). Cryovolcanoes on Ice Moons. In: Ice Worlds of the Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28120-5_6
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