The generated radiation reaches about 3,600 mSv (36 rem), per day, which is a lot higher than the 100 rem that would kill a person within a few weeks if that person had received a radiation dose of 100 rem over a short period. Io’s rotation within the plasma cloud strips ions from the moon, which has the effect of creating radiation that is 1,000 times stronger than is needed to kill an unprotected human being. Io is located in a plasma cloud, known as the Io Plasma Torus that is shaped like a doughnut. Radiation on Io can kill an unprotected human in a day or so The materials involved in the process consists primarily of both ionized and atomic sulphur, oxygen and chlorine, atomic sodium, atomic potassium, molecular sulphur dioxide and sulphur, and sodium chloride dust that eventually end up either in one of several neutral radiation belts around Jupiter, or being ejected from the Jovian system altogether. The effect of this current is dramatic it inflates Jupiter’s magnetosphere to more than double the size it would have been had Io not been so close. The moon Io is an electrical generatorĪs Jupiters’ magnetosphere sweeps up around a ton of dust and gas from Io’s surface each second, the interaction between the swept-up material and Jupiter’s magnetic field creates an electrical current of up to 400,000 volts and 3 million amperes. Io is named after yet another nymphĪs was Zeus’ wont, he had an extra-marital affair with the nymph Io, whom he callously turned into a cow when his wife, Hera, discovered the illicit dalliance. In fact, it was viewing these moons orbiting another planet through the newly invented telescope that helped disprove Aristotle’s theory that all things orbited the Earth, and so eventually led to a heliocentric, instead of geocentric view of the solar system. Regardless of who discovered them, the Galilean moons were the first moons to be discovered that orbited a planet other than Earth.
Io was the first recorded moon after our own moon However, since Galileo’s sighting was published before Marius’, Galileo is credited with the discovery.
In his book, Marius claims to have made the sighting late on December 29th of 1609 according to the Julian calendar, which equates to January 8th, 1610, the date on which Galileo claimed to have discovered Io.
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