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Europa Transiting Geometry
This diagram shows how the plumes on Europa are seen in silhouette as the moon moves across the face of Jupiter. Europa makes a complete orbit of Jupiter in just 3.5 Earth days. CreditsNASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)
- Date
- Jan 1, 2016
- Mission
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- hubblesite-images-2016-33-3798-image
This diagram shows how the plumes on Europa are seen in silhouette as the moon moves across the face of Jupiter. Europa makes a complete orbit of Jupiter in just 3.5 Earth days.
Credits
NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)Image Details
| About The Object | |
|---|---|
| Object Name | Europa |
| Object Description | Moon of Jupiter |
| Distance | The position of Jupiter and Europa changes as they and Earth travel on their orbits through the solar system. Europa, orbiting Jupiter, was approximately 4.3 AU (400 million miles or 640 million kilometers) from Earth at the time of these observations. |
| About The Data | |
| Data Description | Data were provided by HST proposals , , and : W. Sparks (STScI), S. Deustua (STScI), K. Hand (JPL), M. McGrath (SETI Institute), and E. Bergeron and M. Cracraft (STScI). |
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