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Newly Reprocessed Images of Europa Show ‘Chaos Terrain’ in Crisp Detail

NASA / April 30, 2020

The surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call “chaos terrain.” Three newly reprocessed images, taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s, reveal details in diverse surface features on Europa.

Although the data captured by Galileo is more than two decades old, scientists are using modern image processing techniques to create new views of the moon’s surface in preparation for the arrival of the Europa Clipper spacecraft. The orbiter of Jupiter will conduct dozens of flybys of Europa to learn more about the ocean beneath the moon’s thick icy crust and how it interacts with the surface. The mission, set to launch in the next several years, will be the first return to Europa since Galileo.

9 Comments

  1. Now I’m not saying that’s obviously underground structures made by aliens.
    What I am saying is that I think James Hogan got it wrong and the Taloids don’t live on Titan but on Europa.
    I just hope they don’t have some Europan Union.

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