Europa Poster

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This image of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter’s ice-covered satellite, Europa, shows the approximate natural color appearance of the predominantly water-ice crust. Dark brown areas represent rocky material derived from the interior, implanted by impact, or from a combination of interior and exterior sources. Bright plains in the polar areas (top and bottom) are shown in varying tones of gray to distinguish possibly coarse-grained ice (dark gray) from fine-grained ice (light gray). Long, dark lines are fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. The bright feature containing a central dark spot in the lower third of the image is a young impact crater some 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter. This crater has been provisionally named “Pwyll” for the Celtic god of the underworld.

Europa is about 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) in diameter, or about the size of Earth’s Moon. This image was taken on September 7, 1996, at a range of 677,000 kilometers (417,900 miles) by the solid state imaging television camera onboard the Galileo spacecraft during its second orbit around Jupiter. The image was processed by Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Luftund Raumfahrt e.V., Berlin, Germany (DLR).

Create your own “Jovian family” collection by also ordering our Jupiter Poster and Io Poster!

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/DLR.

 

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