This Enhanced RGB image of Europa is a composition of 9h38/9h39/9h40 and 9h41
Europa
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Controlled Mosaic Of Europa Taken By Juno From PJ45
This Geometrically controlled mosaic of Europa from Juno’s Perijove 45. Pixel scale is 1008 meters per pixel and this view is centered at 11.7 N, 0.6 W.
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Tricorder Tech: Exploring Europa With Silicon-germanium Transistor Technology
Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life.
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First Juno Image From Europa Flyby
Observations from the spacecraft’s pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.
Posted inAstrochemistry, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Europa, Missions & Hardware, Press Release
University of Colorado Boulder’s Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA)
In less than a decade, technology developed in Colorado will travel to Jupiter’s moon Europa—a cold moon where a thick crust of ice covering the surface obscures a potentially vast […]
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Juno Will Perform A Close Flyby of Europa
As the Juno spacecraft makes a close approach of Europa, it is expected to provide valuable science – and remarkable imagery – for NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission.
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Tricorder Tech: Nanopore Sequencing at Mars, Europa and Microgravity Conditions
Nanopore sequencing, as represented by Oxford Nanopore Technologies’ MinION, is a promising technology for in situ life detection and for microbial monitoring including in support of human space exploration, due […]
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NASA ROSES-22 Amendment 50: C.27 Precursor Science Investigations for Europa Final Text and Due Dates
The goal of the Precursor Science Investigations for Europa (PSI-E) program is to further the understanding of critical topics in Europa exploration in advance of the Europa Clipper mission.
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Constraining Europa’s Subsolar Atmosphere With A Joint Analysis Of HST Spectral Images And Galileo Magnetic Field Data
We constrain Europa’s tenuous atmosphere on the subsolar hemisphere by combining two sets of observations: oxygen emissions at 1304 Å and 1356 Å from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) spectral images, […]
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Underwater Snow Gives Clues About Europa’s Icy Shell
Image: Mounds of snow-like frazil ice under the Antarctic ice shelf. According to research from UT Austin, Europa’s ice shell could be made of the same stuff. © Helen Glazer […]