Europa (moon)
Europa
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) (
Jupiter II
) is the smallest of the four
Galilean moons
orbiting
Jupiter
, and the
sixth-closest
to the planet. It is also the
sixth-largest moon
in the
Solar System
. Europa was discovered in 1610 by
Galileo Galilei
[1]
and was named after
Europa
, the legendary mother of King
Minos
of
Crete
and lover of
Zeus
(the Greek equivalent of the Roman god
Jupiter
).
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europa 0.798 jupiter 0.201 ocean 0.168 galileo 0.134 crust 0.095 ice 0.085 oxygen 0.082 tidal 0.078 io 0.077 lenticulae 0.075 galilean 0.073 subsurface 0.072 moon 0.070 energy 0.068 life 0.067 |
Europa ( pronounced /jʊˈroʊpə/ (deprecated template) ; [11] or as Greek Ευρώπη) is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter , and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites . Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and possibly independently by Simon Marius ), and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa , who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete . |
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europa 0.767 ocean 0.195 jupiter 0.189 galileo 0.128 ice 0.107 crust 0.103 oxygen 0.102 lenticulae 0.087 life 0.078 surface 0.074 energy 0.073 galilean 0.073 tidal 0.072 subsurface 0.070 molecular 0.065 |
Europa ( pronounced /jʊˈroʊpə/ (deprecated template) ; [10] or as Greek Ευρώπη) is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter . Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and possibly independently by Simon Marius ), and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa , who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete . It is the smallest of the four Galilean moons . |
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europa 0.809 ocean 0.172 jupiter 0.154 galileo 0.117 crust 0.101 oxygen 0.086 ice 0.079 life 0.076 galilean 0.071 mission 0.069 surface 0.069 subsurface 0.068 lenticulae 0.064 molecular 0.063 marius 0.060 |
Europa
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| 2007 |
193828 characters 15 sections 43 paragraphs 18 images 474 internal links 77 external links |
europa 0.806 jupiter 0.186 ocean 0.167 galileo 0.113 crust 0.098 oxygen 0.076 life 0.074 ice 0.073 subsurface 0.073 molecular 0.070 galilean 0.069 mission 0.067 surface 0.067 icy 0.063 lenticulae 0.062 |
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| 2006 |
84723 characters 12 sections 23 paragraphs 11 images 318 internal links 12 external links |
europa 0.751 jupiter 0.200 ocean 0.196 subsurface 0.140 galileo 0.123 crust 0.115 lenticulae 0.109 ice 0.105 europan 0.088 galilean 0.081 surface 0.070 moons 0.068 cryobot 0.066 hydrobot 0.066 template 0.062 |
Europa
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europa 0.697 jupiter 0.162 lenticulae 0.152 ocean 0.152 crust 0.145 galileo 0.128 europan 0.123 ice 0.120 surface 0.094 template 0.086 subsurface 0.081 jumbled 0.076 smooth 0.071 oxygen 0.068 outer 0.065 |
Europa
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| 2004 |
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europa 0.773 lenticulae 0.154 jupiter 0.148 crust 0.146 galileo 0.108 ocean 0.107 ice 0.095 surface 0.090 template 0.087 crisscrossing 0.087 jumbled 0.077 smooth 0.072 oxygen 0.069 outer 0.066 appear 0.065 |
Europa is a moon of the planet Jupiter , smallest of the four Galilean moons . It is named after Europa , one of Zeus's many love interests in Greek mythology , after whom the continent of Europe is also named. |
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europa 0.775 lenticulae 0.175 crust 0.148 surface 0.102 crisscrossing 0.099 ice 0.099 galileo 0.098 jumbled 0.087 ocean 0.087 jupiter 0.085 smooth 0.082 oxygen 0.078 outer 0.075 appear 0.074 fractures 0.073 |
Europa is somewhat similar in bulk composition to the terrestrial planets, being primarily composed of silicate rock . It has an outer layer of water ice thought to be around 100 km thick, and recent magnetic field data from the Galileo probe indicate that Europa has a layered internal structure perhaps with a small metallic iron core. |
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europa 0.770 lenticulae 0.158 crust 0.150 galileo 0.111 ice 0.106 dark 0.098 surface 0.092 jupiter 0.091 crisscrossing 0.089 fractures 0.088 jumbled 0.079 ocean 0.079 smooth 0.074 oxygen 0.070 miles 0.068 |
Dark brown areas represent rocky material derived from the interior, implanted by impact, or from a combination of interior and exterior sources. Bright plains in the polar areas (top and bottom) are shown in tones of blue to distinguish possibly coarse-grained ice (dark blue) from fine-grained ice (light blue). Long, dark lines are fractures in the crust, some of which are more than 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) long. The bright feature containing a central dark spot in the lower third of the image is a young impact crater some 50 kilometers (31 miles) in diameter. This crater has been provisionally named ' Pwyll ' for the Celtic god of the underworld. Europa is about 3,160 kilometers (1,950 miles) in diameter, or about the size of Earth's moon. This image was taken on September 7, 1996, at a range of 677,000 kilometers (417,900 miles) by the solid state imaging television camera onboard the Galileo probe during its second orbit around Jupiter. click here for full sized image |
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europa 0.788 crisscrossing 0.182 oxygen 0.144 galileo 0.136 markings 0.131 ganymede 0.111 gov 0.108 interestingly 0.108 magnetic 0.099 biologic 0.097 smoothness 0.091 http 0.080 surface 0.079 ice 0.073 generated 0.072 |
Europa is somewhat similar in bulk composition to the terrestrial planets, being primarily composed of silicate rock . It has an outer layer of ice, and recent magnetic field data from the Galileo probe indicate that Europa has a layered internal structure perhaps with a small metallic core. |