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DAVIES, A. 2007. Volcanism on Io. A Comparison with Earth. Cambridge Planetary Science Series.

xvi + 355 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £65.00, US $125.00 (hard covers). ISBN 9780 521 85003 7.

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It was with a mixture of incredulity and excitement that I heard on the BBC radio morning news that the NASA Voyager 1 mission had observed active, explosive volcanism on Io, one of the four Galilean satellites orbiting Jupiter. This was March 1979 and at that time we had seen no evidence of recent volcanic activity anywhere else in the Solar System other than Earth.

It should not have been a surprise. That Io, a Moon-sized planetary body, could be volcanically active had been predicted by a California-based team and their work was published a few days before Voyager returned the . . . [Full Text of this Article]