Observatory atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea (long
dormant) volcano to target the atmosphere
of Uranus. When she finished, de Pater decided to take brief images of Io in anticipation
of our team beginning a program to monitor
Io in the near-infrared at the Gemini North
telescope and NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), also located on Mauna Kea.
Figure 2.
Observations of the
August 29th volcanic
outburst on Io over
a two-week period.
The star indicates the
outburst site; other
smaller-scale events
are also visible. Figur B