Europa
Jupiter II
Europa ("yoo ROH puh") is the sixth of Jupiter's known satellites and the fourth largest; it is the second of the Galilean moons. Europa is slightly smaller than the Earth's Moon.
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(yr´p), in astronomy, one of the 39 known moons, or natural satellites, of Jupiter.
Europa Map Images
This map of Europa was constructed primarly from Galileo spacecraft image data with a few small regions filled in with Voyager data. The scale is 20 pixels/degree at the equator for the Mercator maps.
Finding Europa. Galileo Galilei discovered four natural satellites of Jupiter in 1610 - Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa. But only recently have we begun to learn more about the moon Europa.
Europa in Color
, close in size to our Moon, is thought to have an ice surface 100 km (62 mi) thick, which overlies a silicate surface. The complex array of streaks indicates that the has been fractured.
Europa's atmosphere does contain oxygen but it is extremely thin so it is hard to see how it could support life. However, Europa might have oceans under its icy crust. These would be kept liquid by heat from tidal friction.
Europa is an icy moon that orbits Jupiter and it is the sixth largest moon in the solar system. As bodies in the solar system go, it has always been on the B-celebrity list taking its place on the billing behind the planets and other major moons.
The Moon Europa:
Cue Ball of the Satellites
Smoothest Body Around
Europa, pictured in the image to the right, may be the smoothest solid body in the Solar System. It appears to be covered with a frozen water ocean and has very few craters.
Europa, however, seems to have it all. There are large oceans of liquid water on this Jovian moon which are perhaps ten times deeper than the oceans of the Earth. In addition, Europa also has a substantial oxygen atmospere.
Europa: Water World?
For decades, Mars was considered the most likely home for life in the solar system. As observations continued to show a sterile, desolate world, though, scientists began turning their attention to Europa.
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Europa is a cold smooth ice covered world. A long time ago in space there was a period of time when it was very common for asteroids, and comets to hit other worlds. This is called the Heavy Bombardment Period.
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Europa (Figure 11.19) is a very different world from Io. Lying outside Io's orbit, 671,000 km (9.4 Jupiter radii) from Jupiter, it has relatively few craters on its surface, suggesting geologic youth, perhaps just a few million years.
Europa was a Phoenician woman of high lineage in Greek mythology, from whom the name of the continent Europe has ultimately been taken. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story, as K?roly Ker?
Europa (J II)
One of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter 3600 km in diameter. Period 3.55 days, e = 0.00, i = 0°.01, mean density 3.07 g cm-3. [H76]
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Europa. The surface of Europa is totally different from that of Ganymede and Callisto, despite the fact that the infrared spectrum of this object indicates that it, too, is covered with ice.
Europa was entranced by this beautiful yet placid creature. She adorned his horns with flowers and stroked his flanks, admiring the muscles on his neck and the folds of skin on his flanks.
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One of the . Europa has an ice crust criss-crossed with dark lanes and is thought to have a liquid water mantle. The dark lanes have lengths from a few km to 1000's of km. Some are straight and others are curved.
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Europa is a large, dense, icy moon of Jupiter. Europa is the smoothest object in our Solar System. Its surface is covered with long, crisscrossing trackways (but few craters) on water ice. Frozen sulfuric acid has been found on its surface.
Europa, closer to Jupiter than Ganymede, is the smoothest natural body in the solar system. It resembles a billiard ball until seen very close-up. At that distance you can start to see dark, deep, and narrow cracks.
EUROPA ABOVE THE JOVIAN RING
An image of the dark side of Europa captured the ring system as well
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Europa is a moon of Jupiter. Its frozen surface is believed to have an ocean of liquid water beneath it heated by tidal forces. Water and heat make it another candidate for a possible abode of life.
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Fin de trecho de tierra entre Bretaņa y Europa continental. Bretaņa se convierte en una isla.
~4 500 AdC.
Europa displayed a large number of intersecting linear features in the distant, low-resolution photos from Voyager 1. Scientists at first believed the features might be deep cracks, caused by crustal rifting or tectonic processes.
Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are all covered in water-ice but each shows different structures indicating that each has been affected in a unique way by its history. Callisto shows the most cratering and probably shows us the oldest surface.
Europa and Enceladus threaten to make a mockery of several of our assumptions regarding abodes for life, including our cherished notion of a Goldilocks Zone.
Europa: Jupiter's icy Galilean moon.
Extrasolar planet: A planet outside our solar system.
Extraterrestrial life: Life that comes from somewhere other than Earth.
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This representation of the physical properties of interesting asteroids includes most of the asteroids larger than about 200 km in diameter.
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Europa is a large, dense, icy . Its surface is covered with long, crisscrossing trackways (but few craters) and frozen sulphuric acid. Its diameter is less than 2,000 miles (3,138 km), smaller than the . It takes Europa 3.55 days to orbit .
Europa - Europa, like Io, is also a rather unique place. It is ice covered (which isn't so unusual), but it has very few craters; only tiny ones are seen and there aren't very many of those. Why?
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
The four largest moons of Jupiter, known as the Galilean moons after their discoverer Galileo Galilei. He referred to them as the "Medicean Planets" in honor of his patron, the Medici family.
Jupiter with Europa
and its shadow.
In contrast, Europa (which is 12 percent smaller than Earth's Moon) appears to have a sparsely cratered shell of water ice that may be only 10 to 250 million years old.
The other big ones, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, are icy and have strange markings, including "palimpsest craters," ring-like structures due to impacts which probably once created crater walls like those on our own Moon, ...
Europa (NASA Thesaurus / NASA SP-7, 1965) A satellite of Jupiter orbiting at a mean distance of 671,000 kilometers. Also called Jupiter II.
The ice shell of Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is probably about 25 kilometres (15 miles) thick, according to scientists.
The most powerful eruption ever detected on any planet in our Solar System has been seen on Io, one of Jupiter's moons.
These four moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) are called the Galilean satellites in his honor. In this system Galileo saw a mini-model of the heliocentric system. The moons are not moving around the Earth but are centered on Jupiter.
1610 - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, and Io
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Finding Himalia, the fifth brightest moon of JupiterHimalia is the only moon other than Europa, Ganymeade, Callisto and IO visible with small telescopes. You will find the...
Io, daughter of the River, Inachus, Callisto of Lycaon, Europa of Agenor. Then there was Ganymede, the handsome son of King Tros, whom Jupiter, having taken the form of an eagle, transported to heaven on his back, as poets fabulously tell ....
Europa - Europa may contain liquid water beneath its 100-mile thick ice layer, vents on the bottom of the ocean warm the ice so that 60 miles of liquid could exist beneath the ice layer, perhaps capable of supporting microbes and simple plants.
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This constellation is associated with the dragon slain by Cadmus, the brother of Europa. The father sent Cadmus to find Europa who was kidnapped by Zeus. But though he searched for his sister everywhere he could not find her.
Marius is certainly credited with naming them - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. [Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, may have been recorded by a Chinese astronomer named Gan De in 364 BC, using nothing more than his naked eye! Maybe.
In particular, the icy moon Europa is the prime candidate for life. Many NASA scientists at JPL and other laboratories suspect with strong evidence that an ocean is hidden under the moon's solid and icy surface.
In contrast, the surface of Europa is extremely smooth. It is evidently covered by a layer of water ice that emerged from Europa's interior after the early bombardment.
A small telescope easily picks out Jupiter's four major moons: Io, Europa, Gabymede and Callisto. All four orbit with the same hemisphere facing Jupiter -- just like our Moon orbits with the same side facing our planet Earth.
In addition to the information collected about the atmosphere of Jupiter, it detected evidence of underground salt water oceans on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, and examined the active volcanoes on the moon Io.
In Roman mythology the bull of Taurus represents the god Jupiter who turned himself into a bull in order to kidnap the maiden Europa, who he took to the island of Crete.
Jupiter has a large number of satellites, including the four Galilean satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Io is famous for its active volcanic activity, which emits sulphuric compounds, and has a geologically young surface.
The story went that Zeus fell in love with Europa, the daughter of Agenor who was King of Phoenica. On one day while she was playing by the waters edge, she caught sight of a majestic white bull grazing amongst her fathers heard.
Europa is the smallest of the Galilean satellites. Europa's surface is mostly water ice. Beneath the ice may be an ocean of water or slushy ice. Europa is thought to have twice as much water as Earth.
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The smooth water-ice surface of Jupiter's moon Europa may hide an ocean beneath, but some scientists believe any past oceans have turned to slush or ice. In 2010: Odyssey Two, Arthur C.
GALILEAN MOONS - Four largest of Jupiter's moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Dscovered independently by Galileo and Marius, Galileo proposed that they be named the “Medicean stars,' in honor of his patron Cosimo II de Medici.
Definition: geologic unit: A body of rock (or ice, in Europa's case) that has a distinct origin and consists of dominant, unifying features that can be easily recognized and mapped.
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Taurus, the Bull, commemorates the disguise used by Zeus to abduct Europa to Crete.
While Pleiades always attract attention in this region of the sky, Crab Nebula (M1) is the favourite deep sky target of many observers.
The four largest satellites of Jupiter - Io (J I), Europa (J II), Ganymede (J III), and Callisto (J IV) - discovered by Galileo in 1610. All are locked in synchronous rotation with Jupiter. [H76]
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Twenty eight satellites orbit Jupiter. The four largest moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. They were observed as long ago as 1610.
Jupiter probably has a core of rocky material, surrounded by gases and liquid.
 See also: Earth, Planet, Solar, Jupiter, Orbit
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