Here's a list of approved Cycle 6 (July 1996-June 1997) HST observing programs devoted to the satellites of Jupiter, (or to the surfaces of other giant planet satellites): PI Institution Title -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ballester University of Michigan HST observations of Io's atmosphere coordinated with GALILEO Brown Caltech Determining the Crustal Composition of Io through Atmospheric Spectroscopy Denk Deutsche Forsch. fuer Luft- Disk-resolved Spectrophotometry of the und Raumfahrt Dark Side of Iapetus Goguen Jet Propulsion Laboratory Global Mapping of the Opposition Surge on the Galilean Satellites Hall The Johns Hopkins University Transit Observations of Io's Atmosphere Hall The Johns Hopkins University Far-UV Airglow and Albedo Observations of Europa and Ganymede McGrath STScI Io's SO2 Atmosphere: Patchy or Not? Noll STScI Ultraviolet Spectra of Saturn's Satellites: Ion Modification of Surface Ice Noll STScI The Ultraviolet Spectrum of Callisto Roush San Francisco State U. Ultraviolet Spectra of Uranian Satellites Seidelmann United States Naval Obs. Recovery of Inner Satellites of Neptune Spencer Lowell Observatory Temporal Variability of Io's Surface and Plumes Zellner Georgia Southern University Spectrophotometry of Inner Jovian Satellites Mike Brown (mbrown@kepler.gps.caltech.edu) supplies this additional information on his planned HST program "Determining the Crustal Composition of Io...": I've got an HST program for Cycle 6 (with Melissa McGrath) to look for silcon, magnesium, and Mg+ in the atmosphere of Io with the FOS (so it >has< to schedule sometime in the next year) around 2800 A. Sensitivities are good, so if there is a reasonable amount of silicon or magnesium relative to sodium, we should see it easily. But who knows what's really reasonable on Io.... John Spencer gives the following info. on his Cycle 6 Io imaging program, which is with McGrath, McEwen, Nash, Sartoretti, Clark, Ballester, and Trauger: We will obtain global longitudinal WFPC2 imaging of Io at 2500 A, 3400 A, and 4100 A on two occasions, in Summer 1996 and Spring 1997, to extend Galileo imaging coverage into the ultraviolet. We hope to look for the Loki and Pele plumes at 2500 A, following up on a very tentative identification of the Pele plume in 1995 HST images at this wavelength. Jay Goguen gives the following info on his Cycle 6 "Global Mapping of the Opposition Surge..." program: Dates not yet determined - 12 orbits in Cycle 6 for "Global Mapping of the Opposition Surge on the Galilean Satellites" (Some observations at phase angles less than 1 degree in early July a high priority).