Jupiter's innermost radiation belts (IMAGE)
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While the high-energy oxygen and sulfur ions outside Amalthea's orbit are supplied from the distant magnetosphere as byproducts of Io’s volcanic eruptions, another source must be responsible for the high concentration of high-energy oxygen ions inward of Amalthea, which prevents the transmission of such ions across its orbit.
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