Europa (moon) - Wikipedia
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: Facts - NASA Science
Europa orbits Jupiter every 3.5 days and is locked by gravity to Jupiter, so the same hemisphere of the moon always faces the planet. Jupiter takes about 4,333 Earth days (or about 12 Earth years) to orbit the Sun (a Jovian year).
Europa - NASA Science
Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons. It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet. Europa may be one of the most promising places in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable for some form of life beyond Earth.
Europa | Facts, Composition & Exploration | Britannica
2024年12月15日 · Europa is a rocky object covered with an extremely smooth, elaborately patterned surface of ice. Europa has a diameter of 3,130 km (1,940 miles), which makes it a little smaller than Earth’s Moon. It orbits Jupiter at a distance of about 671,000 km (417,000 miles).
Landscapes and Features of Europa – NASA's Europa Clipper
2019年1月7日 · These 15 frames show the great variety of surface features on Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which have been revealed by the Galileo spacecraft Solid State Imaging (CCD) system during its first six orbits around Jupiter from June 1996 to February 1997.
Europa Moon Facts - Space Facts
Europa is the smallest of Jupiter’s Galilean moons and the second closest, however it is still the sixth largest moon in the solar system. Europa is known for being one of the first worlds a subsurface water ocean was hypothesised for.
Europa, Jupiter’s possible watery moon | The Planetary Society
If the liquid ocean really is there, it could make Europa an especially promising place to look for life, because liquid water is crucial for life as we know it. But many mysteries remain about this huge moon, from the thickness of the ice shell to the details of what happens beneath it.
Photos: Europa, Mysterious Icy Moon of Jupiter - Space.com
2016年9月20日 · The icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter’s cloud tops. The picture was one of a handful of the Jupiter system that New Horizons took primarily for artistic, rather than scientific, value.
Jupiter - Europa, Icy Moon, Ocean | Britannica
4 天之前 · This moon possesses both induced and intrinsic magnetic fields. Slightly mottled regions on the surface have been found to contain salt deposits, suggesting evaporation of water from a reservoir below the crust. Europa’s frozen surface is crisscrossed with dark and bright stripes and curvilinear ridges and grooves.
Moon Europa with details - Major & Minor Planetary Imaging
2024年10月30日 · Moon Europa with details - posted in Major & Minor Planetary Imaging: Hello, you can see again what the height means: After the lousy low Mars, I took this pretty good shot of Europa high in the sky. For comparison I added a Winjupos simulation, south is up.