Complete color global maps and high-resolution mosaics of Jupiter's four large moons - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto - are compiled for the first time in this important atlas. The satellites are revealed as four visually striking and geologically diverse planetary bodies: Io's volcanic lavas and plumes and towering mountains; Europa's fissured ice surface; the craters, fractures and polar caps of Ganymede; and the giant impact basins, desiccated plains and icy pinnacles of Callisto. Featuring images taken from the recent Galileo mission, this atlas is a comprehensive mapping reference guide for researchers. It contains 65 global and regional maps, nearly 250 high-resolution mosaics, and images taken at resolutions from 500 meters to as high as 6 meters.
Dr. Paul Schenk, currently a staff (not staph) scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston Texas, is also a deep sea diver, scuba diver, traveler, mapper, and occasional dabbler in amateur stained glass. He watched avidly as the Space race unfolded in the 1960's. Rejected from art school, he was lucky to discover the fascinating world of geology just as the Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets were sent on their way to the Outer Solar System. He applied for and was awarded a NASA summer internship at JPL to witness first-hand the Voyager 2 encounter with Jupiter in 1979, including the first high-resolution images of Europa. He did not quite suspect that decades later he would be making high-resolution topographic maps and movies of the surface of this and other strange water worlds. His parallel interest in antique deep sea diving with helmet and lead-soled boots does not make him an expert in extreme environment survival but he likes to think it qualifies him for future Europa exploration, despite the need for a 15 kilometer long airhose to get him beneath the outer ice layer.
Paul has been mapping the icy satellites of the outer planets since graduate school days at Washington University in Saint Louis and is currently assisting the New Horizons team plan Pluto encounter observations for July 2015 and is a participant in the Dawn mission to Vesta in 2011. He specializes in impact craters and their effects on icy satellites, and in 3-D imaging of their surfaces, which he uses to measure topography and create really amazing stereo views. Over the years he has discovered plate tectonics on Europa, the highest mountains on Io (17 kilometers!), the compressional origin of Io's mountains, diapirism on Triton, the impact of tidally disrupted comets onto the Galilean satellites, the thickness of Europa's ice shell (roughly 15 to 20 kilometers), and polar wander of Europa's ice shell, among other things. His monumental "Atlas of the Galilean Satellites" highlights the Voyager and Galileo missions to Jupiter. He has received no major awards, for which he is grateful for not having to have given a long speech.
