
Surface Of Jupiters Moon, Europa

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Surface Of Jupiters Moon, Europa
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This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Newer fractures crosscut older ones, and several wide, dark bands are visible where the surface has spread apart in the past. The scene also contains several regions of 'chaos terrain', where the smooth surface has been disrupted into jumbled blocks of material.The high-resolution images for this view were obtained by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) experiment on September 25, 1998. The image depicts an area approximately 220 by 440 miles.
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July 20th, 2016
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