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  • Outland: An astonishingly underrated movie, if you can get past the handwaving tech to deal with Io's low gravity.

    MIND MELD: What Are The Most Realistic (and the Most Ridiculous) Uses of Science in SciFi Film and TV? 2009

  • Given that Io's orbit around Jupiter is roughly the same size as that of the Moon around Earth, and Earth's diameter is roughly four times that of the Moon, and Jupiter roughly 10 times that of Earth, it seems that Jupiter would be 40 times bigger in the sky of Io than the Moon is in Earth's sky.

    more stuff you really,really wanted to know (ahem) mikandra 2010

  • A related, cool, thing I was wondering: would you be able to see Io's shadow tracking across Jupiter as the 'night' progressed?

    stuff you always wanted to know mikandra 2010

  • And if they're talking about rem, this is presumably a measure of gamma radiation probably a secondary product from magnetospheric charged-particle bombardment of Jupiter's outer atmosphere, or Io's own feeble salt-and-sulfur atmosphere, and would indeed at the doses you've uncovered require significant shielding.

    mikandra: crap and duh mikandra 2010

  • Every month, for six straight months, Io appeared to take about 3½ minutes less to orbit Jupiter, so that after half a year, Io's orbit seemed to have shortened by 22 minutes.

    Danish astronomer was first to estimate the speed of light 300 years ago 2010

  • A related, cool, thing I was wondering: would you be able to see Io's shadow tracking across Jupiter as the 'night' progressed?

    mikandra: about moons mikandra 2010

  • And even if the suit did need to be extremely heavy, remember (a) that Io's surface gravity is only 18% that of Earth's, and (b) you can always fit the suit with a powered exoskeleton, as in Aliens.

    mikandra: crap and duh mikandra 2010

  • Given that Io's orbit around Jupiter is roughly the same size as that of the Moon around Earth, and Earth's diameter is roughly four times that of the Moon, and Jupiter roughly 10 times that of Earth, it seems that Jupiter would be 40 times bigger in the sky of Io than the Moon is in Earth's sky.

    mikandra: more stuff you really,really wanted to know (ahem) mikandra 2010

  • Io's volcanoes might help explain changes in our own atmosphere.

    Jupiter Steals The Show 2008

  • Bosporus means in Greek "ox ford" or "ox passage"; the name comes from a Greek myth about Io's travels after Zeus turned her into an ox for her protection.

    Bosporus Straits, Turkey 2008

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