Evidence for an Ocean | Why Europa – NASA's Europa Clipper
WEBVoyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter occurred in March 1979, with Voyager 2 following in July of the same year. The best imaging resolution of the Voyagers was limited to just over 1 mile (2 kilometers) per pixel.
How Jupiter Moon Europa's Underground Ocean Was Discovered
WEBFeb 12, 2013 · A month after the Io flyby, Voyager 1 came within several hundred thousand miles of Europa, though its trajectory was planned to take it back around Jupiter and away from the moon.
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
WEBMar 26, 2024 · Jupiter’s moon Europa has fascinated scientists and the public alike ever since Voyager 1 and 2 found the first hints of a global subsurface ocean in 1979. Subsequent studies by other...
Are Water Plumes Spraying From Europa? NASA’s Europa …
WEBNov 30, 2021 · This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa. The image of the plume was made from data collected by NASA’s Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph in 2014. The image of Europa itself is made from data from NASA’s Galileo and Voyager missions.
History | Mission – NASA's Europa Clipper
WEBMarch 5, 1979. Voyager 1 Flyby. The two Voyager spacecraft gave us the first detailed images of Europa. Voyager 1 did not get close enough to Europa to obtain very high-resolution images, but the quality was good enough to reveal that Europa’s icy surface was covered in intersecting lines, along with dark patches of an unknown reddish material.
NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean …
WEBMar 11, 2020 · With a launch date no later than 2025, NASA will return with the Europa Clipper mission to characterize Europa’s potential habitability by examining its ice shell and ocean, surface and...
In Depth – NASA's Europa Clipper
WEBThe Voyager 2 spacecraft provided the first images close enough to reveal that Europa's surface is crossed by ridges and cracks, and hinted that Europa might be geologically active today. The Galileo mission provided even closer views of the icy moon and found the strongest evidence of an ocean there.
Europa's Ocean - NASA Science
WEBNov 27, 2017 · This image of Miranda, obtained by Voyager 2 on approach, shows an unusual "chevron" figure and regions of distinctly differing terrain on the Uranian moon. Voyager opened so many doors, so many possibilities -- with so many discoveries.
In Depth | Europa – NASA Solar System Exploration
WEBVoyager 1's closest approach to Jupiter occurred on March 4, 1979. The spacecraft snapped a full global image of Europa from a distance of about 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers). A few months later, Voyager 2 had its closest encounter with …
Astronomers Get Ready to Probe Europa’s Hidden Ocean for Life
WEBOct 6, 2021 8:00 AM. Astronomers Get Ready to Probe Europa’s Hidden Ocean for Life. Jupiter’s most enigmatic moon, one of a few ocean worlds in the solar system, will be the target of...
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