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This is a list of named volcanic surface features on Jupiter's moon Io. These names have been approved for use by the International Astronomical Union. The features listed below represent a subset of the total known volcanic features on Io's surface with the majority currently not having an officially approved name. The names of volcanic features on Io use a combination of a name derived from mythological figures from around the world related to the Sun, fire, volcanoes, thunder, or smithing, places from the Greek mythological story of Io, Dante's Inferno, or from the name of a nearby feature on Io's surface and an approved descriptive term. The descriptive term used is based on the type of feature named and how it was first discovered. Volcanoes that were first observed as an active feature from observations of a volcanic plume fit under the category of "Eruptive Center" and do not use a descriptive term, though portions of these features may have also received names that do use a descriptive term, like Prometheus Patera or Masubi Fluctus. Lava flows use the descriptive term fluctus or the plural fluctūs, e.g. Acala Fluctus. Volcanic depressions use the term patera or the plural paterae, e.g. Ah Peku Patera. The term has also become the generic term for referring to these structures. Small shield volcanoes use the term tholus or the plural tholi, e.g. Inachus Tholus. Finally, channels carved by volcanic lava flows through thermal erosion use the term vallis or the plural valles. See also the list of mountains on Io and the list of regions on Io.
References
- Blue, Jennifer. "Io Nomenclature: Patera, paterae". USGS. http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/SearchResults?target=IO&featureType=Patera,%20paterae. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- Davies, Ashley (2007). "Appendix 1: Io hot-spot locations". Volcanism on Io: A Comparison with Earth. Cambridge University Press. pp. 305–309. ISBN 0-521-85003-7.
- /moʊˈnæn/ in English by Rosaly Lopes, who named Monan.
- Spencer, J. R. (2007). "Io Volcanism Seen by New Horizons: A Major Eruption of the Tvashtar Volcano". Science 318 (5848): 240–243. doi:10.1126/science.1147621. PMID 17932290. Bibcode: 2007Sci...318..240S. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1147621
- /tuːˈpæn/ in English by Rosaly Lopes, who named Tupan.
- Schenk, P. (2001). "The Mountains of Io: Global and Geological Perspectives from Voyager and Galileo". Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (E12): 33201–33222. doi:10.1029/2000JE001408. Bibcode: 2001JGR...10633201S. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029%2F2000JE001408
- Schenk, P. M. (2004). "Shield volcano topography and the rheology of lava flows on Io". Icarus 169: 98–110. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2004.01.015. Bibcode: 2004Icar..169...98S. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.icarus.2004.01.015
