Io the Jovian moon erupts in fiery lava oceans
New Galileo flybys reveal Io as a world of multicolored lava fields and sulfur plains. Temperatures swing from minus 280 to nearly 3000 degrees, driven by intense tidal forces from Jupiter. Researchers say Io has melted completely hundreds to thousands of times in the solar system’s history.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jupiter
Galileo
Tuhang
Alfred S. McEwen
University of Anzona
Tucson
Science
Tava
Sad McEwen
Earth
Jupteer
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
McEwen
Explorers Club banquet highlights modern armchair adventurers
The article surveys a shift from rugged expeditions to sponsorship driven ventures. It profiles Sylvia Earle Anne Bancroft John Hare and other explorers at a Waldorf Astoria banquet, noting tech use and media driven quests. It contrasts Shackleton Ballard Piccard and Byrd with today’s funding models and televised narratives.
Notable 1999 2000 global exploration and ascent feats
A collage of early 1999 to 2000 expeditions and discoveries includes Hillary reaching the South Pole amid blizzards and frostbite, Bertrand Piccard and Bran Jones flying a hot air balloon around the world, Jehan Rembard leading Inca mummy recovery on an Andean volcano, and discoverers locating Everest era remains and submerged ancient ships.
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Bancroft
South Pole
Shackleton
Amazonic
Suriial
Robert Ballard
Ballard
Titanic
Bismarck
Yorktown
Lusitania
Explorers Club
Columbus
Peary
Barbara Moffett
National Geographic Society
Bertrand Piccard
Bran Jones
Piccard
Auguste Piccard
Jacques Piccard
Pacific Ocean
Conqueros
SV Edmund Hillary
Pole
Switzerland
Britain
Sall
Jehan Rembard
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Culann Fatera
Alaska
Benny Benson
Young Benson
Saturn
Joe Rae
Hayden Paretanum NY Tomes News
Ocean
New York
Sylvia Earle
Explorers ‘Club
Pacific
Waldorf Asiona Hotel
Congo
Amazon
Peru
Tibet
China
Mexico
Belize
Earle
John Hare
Lop
Eaton
Lou Lan
Hare
Everest
Mars
Jeff Blumenfeld
Blumenfeld
Rowayton
Piss
Seattle
Olympic Coast National Mariner Sanctuary
Ann Bancroft
Antarctic
Ernest Shackleton
Bradford Washburn
Boston
Washburn
Richard Byrd
Amelia Earhart
Ed Hillary
Boston Museum of Science
Kipling
Wash‘bern
Fiephow
the Assocated Press
Swiss Alps
Chateau-D'ex
George Mattary
Gene Savoy
Reno
New
Conturmarca
Peruvian Geographic Society of Lima
Jacek Palkiewicz
Amazon River
Reinhold Messner
Conrad Anker
Stephen Venables
Phil Greenfield
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