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太陽系中最活躍的火山世界是木星的一顆衛星,其類似間歇泉的噴發和巨大的熔岩流提供了奇異火山流體的證據。它們的能量來源是引力

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TORRENCE V. JOHNSON has an asteroid named after him: 2614 Torrence, a body about one kilometer in diameter. Working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., he has been the project scientist for Galileo since 1977--some three quarters of his career as a planetary scientist. He was a member of the imaging team for Voyager and is now on the imaging team for the Cassini mission to Saturn.

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大眾科學 Magazine Vol 249 Issue 6This article was originally published with the title “Io” in 大眾科學 Magazine Vol. 249 No. 6 (), p. 56
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1283-56
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