The role of SO2 in volcanism on Io

@article{Smith1979TheRO,
  title={The role of SO2 in volcanism on Io},
  author={B. A. Smith and Eugene Merle Shoemaker and Susan W. Kieffer and Allan F. Cook},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1979},
  volume={280},
  pages={738-743}
}
Io and Earth are the only planetary bodies known to be volcanically active; the energetics of the eruptive plumes on Io have important structural implications and are closely linked with the presence of sulphur and SO2. 
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