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Europa

author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Novapix

reference: a-jup08-50000

Image Size 300 DPI: 27 * 33 cm

This view of Jupiter's icy moon Europa was captured by JunoCam aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, during the mission's close flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. JunoCam took the image at an altitude of 945 miles (1,521 kilometers) above a region of the moon called Annwn Regio. In the image, terrain beside the day-night boundary is revealed to be rugged, with pits and troughs. Numerous bright and dark ridges and bands stretch across a fractured surface, revealing the tectonic stresses that the moon has endured over millennia. The circular dark feature at the lower right is Callanish Crater.

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2022 - ASTRONOMY - CRATER - EUROPA - GALILEAN SATELLITE - ICE - IMPACT CRATER - JOVIAN MOON - JUNO - SATELLITE -