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太阳系中最活跃的火山世界是木星的一颗卫星,其类似间歇泉的喷发和巨大的熔岩流提供了奇异火山流体的证据。它们的能量来源是引力

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