Io with known topography scaled one in twenty million

prusaprinters

<p>Originally published here: <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3419212">Io with known topography scaled one in twenty million by tato_713 - Thingiverse</a></p><p>This model was made using MATLAB R2016a on the DEM (digital elevation map) of Io from White et al (2014). Like with many of the colored map based models I've made, there could be many feature artefacts of the colour-level decodification algorithm. The original map is not complete and some parts are very scattered, so I fill the gap using interpolation. The file's names explained: <i>name_1_x_10_y.stl</i> is 1 : x* 10^y. So _1_6_10_7 is 1:600000000 or one in 60 million.</p><h4>J1 Io</h4><p>Io is the most proximal to <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3928031">Jupiter</a> of the Galilean moons, and the third of them in size. It is slightly bigger than the <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3419235">Moon</a>. It is the most geologically active object in the Solar System, because is the object most affected by tidal heating. That is heating because the different gravity influence of Jupiter along its orbit, which is maintain eccentric by its resonance with <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3419443">Europa</a> and <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3686218">Ganymede</a>. The heating is so extreme that nearly all the volatils (water and hydrogen) have escaped from the surface.</p><ul><li><strong>Type:</strong> Satellite.</li><li><strong>Orbit:</strong> Jupiter</li><li><strong>Orbital period:</strong> 1.769 d.</li><li><strong>Composition:</strong> Silicate rock. Differentiated interior. Iron core</li><li><strong>Density:</strong> 3.528 g/cm3.</li><li><strong>Dimensions:</strong> 3660.0 km × 3637.4 km × 3630.6 km.</li><li><strong>Model scale:</strong> 1:2x107 (18cm) 1:6x107 (6cm)</li></ul><h4>References</h4><ul><li><a href="https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/4512-surf2stl">Surf to STL function for MATLAB</a></li><li>White, O. L., P. M. Schenk, F. Nimmo, and T. Hoogenboom (2014), A new stereo topographic map of Io: Implications for geology from global to local scales, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 119, doi:10.1002/2013JE004591.</li></ul><h3>Other astronomical objects</h3><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49826">Inner Solar System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49832">Artificial</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49820">Near Earth Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49291">Main Belt Asteroids</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49829">Jovian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49828">Saturn System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49830">Uranian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49345">Neptunian System</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49827">Centaurs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49833">Comets</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49341">Trans Neptunian Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49824">Extrasolar Objects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49837">Sky Maps</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49831">Ancient</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49822">Speculative</a></p><p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/social/120859-tato_713/collections/49821">Science Fiction</a></p>