Public domain
ARC-1979-A79-7018
From the collection of NASA Image and Video Library. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Range : 5.9 million kilometers (3.66 million miles) Europa is Jupiter's 2nd Galilean satellite from the planet. Photo taken early morning and through a violet filter. Faint swirls and Linear Patterns show in the equarorial region(which is darker than the poles). The hemisphere shown always faces Jupiter. North is up. Europa is the brightest of the Galilian satellites but shows low contrast on this hemisphere. Density and size is similar to Earth's Moon.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineARC-1979-A79-7018. NASA/ARC, 1979-03-01. Public domain. ID: ARC-1979-A79-7018.
