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Figure 5: Spatial profiles of S II 1256Å near Io. Profiles from each STIS image are shown separately. Each dot is the average of one row (along the dispersion direction) of the slit image, excluding areas overlapping the 1216Å and 1299Å slit images. The solid line is a sliding boxcar average of the data over a 1 RIo interval. The vertical dotted lines enclose the projection of Io's disk. The lower pair of curves show the modeled torus contribution for <strong>E</strong> = 0.025 (dashed) and <strong>E</strong> = 0.040 (dash-dot); the upper pair are the same with an empirically chosen constant offset to compensate for scattered light in the instrument.