Abstract
We take advantage of a partial and a total occultation of the jovian radio sources observed during the flyby of Io to characterize the plasma environment of this moon. We show that it presents a strong upstream / downstream asymmetry. A dense plasma structure (n > 5 × 104 cm−3) extends far from Io (at least 1000 km) in the wake direction whereas no extended dense region is found upstream. The dense region in the wake could correspond to a the stagnation region of the flow of the corotating plasma.
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