Surface of Europa
The surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa is easily viewed in this newly-reprocessed composite, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon's surface at the highest resolution. To create this new version, the images were assembled into a realistic color view of the surface that approximates how Europa would appear to the human eye. The scene shows the diversity of Europa's surface geology. Long, linear cracks and ridges crisscross the surface, interrupted by regions of disrupted terrain where the surface ice crust has been broken up and re-frozen into new patterns.
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Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: astronomical, astronomy, body, celestial, deep, europa, exploration, heavenly, jupiter, moon, object, planet, planetary, science, sky, space, surface
