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Vista artística de las plumas en Europa

This is an artist's concept of the moon Europa, at right, with water-ice plumes erupting from its lower left limb at the 7 o'clock position. In the background, to the left, is Jupiter's orange, volcanic moon Io, and to the left of Io is Jupiter. Io's shadow appears in the center...

Fecha
Jan 1, 2016
Misión
Hubble Space Telescope
ID de archivo
hubblesite-images-2016-33-3797-image
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This is an artist's concept of the moon Europa, at right, with water-ice plumes erupting from its lower left limb at the 7 o'clock position. In the background, to the left, is Jupiter's orange, volcanic moon Io, and to the left of Io is Jupiter. Io's shadow appears in the center of Jupiter's face, left.

Credits

NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Detalles de la imagen

About The Object
Object NameEuropa
Object DescriptionMoon of Jupiter
DistanceThe 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 DescriptionData 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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