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1 giorno fa · Europa / j ʊ ˈ r oʊ p ə / ⓘ, 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.
- 13743.36 m/s
- 1.314m/s² (0.134 g)
- 3.09×10⁷ km² (0.061 Earths)
3 giorni fa · The Juno mission's visible-light camera, JunoCam, has captured unprecedented pictures of Jupiter's poles, cloud-tops, and moons, as well as the public's attention, imagination, and assistance. From the start, the Juno team invited the public to help choose worthwhile research targets, to process, analyze, and play with raw images, and to produce breathtaking works of science and art.
3 giorni fa · Spacecraft Makers is a video series that takes audiences behind the scenes to learn more about how space missions, like Europa Clipper, come together. Europa Clipper will explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa to see if there are conditions suitable for life. The spacecraft needs to be hardy enough to survive a 1.6 billion-mile, six-year journey ...
5 giorni fa · The rock-hard, icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa has huge cracks and jagged ridges. It's believed that these cracks are caused by the flexing from Europa's tides. This close-up image of Europa's surface was taken by NASA's Galileo orbiter.
1 giorno fa · Jupiter is surrounded by a faint planetary ring system and has a powerful magnetosphere, the second largest contiguous structure in the Solar System (after the heliosphere). Jupiter forms a system of 95 known moons and probably many more, including the four large moons discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and ...
5 giorni fa · The Short Answer: What is Europa? Europa is one of Jupiter’s moons. Scientists believe that Europa is especially notable because it may have twice as much water as Earth, though it is so cold on Europa that water on the surface of this moon is frozen. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
2 giorni fa · On the evening of May 22, 2024, the waxing gibbous moon will lie near the bright red star Antares in Scorpius the Scorpion. They’ll be visible from early morning until dawn. Chart via EarthSky ...
