Europa: Facts - NASA Science
WEBEuropa’s surface is made of water ice and so it reflects 5.5 times the sunlight than our Moon does. Europa orbits Jupiter at about 417,000 miles (671,000 kilometers) from the …
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Europa /jʊˈroʊpə/ , or Jupiter II, is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 95 known moons of Jupiter. It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered independently by Simon Marius and Galileo Galilei and was named (by Marius) after Europa, the Phoenician mother of King Minos of Crete and lover of Zeus (th…
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Surface area: 3.09×10⁷ km² (0.061 Earths)
- Average orbital speed: 13743.36 m/s
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- Pioneer 10 kicked things off. The spacecraft flew by Jupiter in 1973 and performed the first survey of the planet and its moons. In 1979, Voyager 2 captured the first close images of Europa, to reveal ridges and cracks on the moon’s surface. It also showed us that Europa might be geologically active today. From 1995 to 2003, the Galileo spacecraft ...
Europa - Science@NASA
WEBEuropa is one of the four largest moons of Jupiter, with a water-ice crust and a possible iron-nickel core. NASA's Europa Clipper mission will explore its ocean and search for …
Europa: A guide to Jupiter's icy moon | Space
WEBMay 3, 2023 · Learn about Europa, one of the most intriguing moons of the solar system, with a possible ocean beneath its icy surface. Find out how it was discovered, what missions have explored it and what future …
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New Europa Pictures Beamed Home by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
WEBSept. 30, 2022. Europa, the ice-encrusted moon of Jupiter, is still everything it’s cracked up to be. Juno, a NASA spacecraft that has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, zipped within …
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WEBFeb 6, 2024 · Source: NASA. Published: February 6, 2024. Deep beneath the crust of Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa lies a massive liquid water ocean. Exploring this ocean …
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