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by PaulHoule 1203 days ago
A lot of the radiation is produced by a ‘breeding’ process where volcanos on Io emit vapor that gets ionized and then accelerated to make more radiation that ionizes more vapor.
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Katherine de Kleer said "It's like Io is the massive polluter of the Jupiter system" on the Lex Fridman podcast #184, the Io part starts ~14mins in for the curious