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A New Image of Europa Emerges
Europa’s icy, cracked surface imaged by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Eureka – it’s Europa! And a brand-new image of it, too! (Well, kinda sorta.)
The picture above, showing the icy moon’s creased and cracked surface, was made from images acquired by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft during its exploration of Jupiter and its family of moons in 1997 and 1998. While the data itself isn’t new per se the view seen here has never been released by JPL, and so it’s new to you! (And to me too.)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/113110/a-new-image-of-europa-emerges/
I want to know if there is a possibility that some form of life exists on Europa.
Imagine if they had seen this 100 years ago. Canals all over again…
The photo looks good, but I prefer the TITAN images that were released ages ago, they had structure.