Temperature and Age Maps of Loki Patera (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Temperature and Age Maps of Loki Patera

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Maps of the temperature and lava crust age within Loki Patera, derived from the LBTO observations. The higher temperatures in the southeast (location 3) indicate that new magma was exposed most recently in this location.

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Large Binocular Telescope Observatory

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