The cocktail of chemicals that make up the frozen surfaces on two of Jupiter’s largest moons are revealed in the most detailed images ever taken of them by a telescope […]
Europa
Posted inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Press Release
Citizen Scientists Enhance New Juno Images Of Europa
Science enthusiasts have processed the new JunoCam images of Jupiter’s icy moon, with results that are out of this world.
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Enceladus, Europa, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Tricorder Tech: OWLS – New NASA Astrobiology Tools
A team at NASA JPL has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life.
Posted inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Yet By Juno
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 inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Enhanced RGB Image Of Europa Taken By Juno From PJ45
This Enhanced RGB image of Europa is a composition of 9h38/9h39/9h40 and 9h41
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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.
Posted inEuropa, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
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.
Posted inEuropa, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release
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.