A new, Io-related paper was published in the October 30 issue
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research titled, "Volcanic
history, geologic analysis and map of the Prometheus Patera
region on Io. The authors of this paper are Giovanni Leone,
Ashley Davies, Lionel Wilson, David Williams, Laszlo Keszthelyi,
Windy Jaeger, and Elizabeth Turtle. In this paper, the authors
present a geologic map of the Prometheus lava flow field and
surrounding terrain based on the Galileo's Solid State Imager
(SSI) mosaic shown at right. The authors then combined this map
with analysis of high-resolution data from Galileo's Near-
infrared Mapping Spectrometer (NIMS) to determine the
relationship between the albedo, topographic, and thermal
features observed in SSI and NIMS data and geologic features at
Prometheus. From this analysis, the authors can then infer the
sub-surface structure beneath Prometheus. On this blog we have
covered other recent geologic maps developed from Galileo
regional-scale mosaics of Io, including the