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In early summer of 1972, we discovered an anomalous brightness in the spectrum of Io near the sodium D-lines. This effect is revealed to be time-varying emission by free sodium atoms on Io.
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Brown, R.A. (1974). Optical Line Emission from Io. In: Woszczyk, A., Iwaniszewska, C. (eds) Exploration of the Planetary System. International Astronomical Union/Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2206-4_47
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