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Foto compuesta de supuestas columnas de agua en Europa (anotada)
This composite image includes data from Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, which shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o'clock position off the limb of Jupiter's moon Europa. The image of Europa, superimposed on the Hubble data, is assembled from dat...
- Fecha
- Jan 1, 2016
- Misión
- Hubble Space Telescope
- ID de archivo
- hubblesite-images-2016-33-3796-image
This composite image includes data from Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, which shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o'clock position off the limb of Jupiter's moon Europa. The image of Europa, superimposed on the Hubble data, is assembled from data from the Galileo and Voyager missions.
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NASA, ESA, W. Sparks (STScI), the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, and Z. Levay (STScI)Detalles de la imagen
| 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). |
| Instrument | HST>STIS/MAMA |
| Exposure Dates | January 26, 2014 (Exposure Time: 2,023 seconds) |
| Filters | F25SRF2 (150nm UV) |
| About The Image | |
| Color Info | This image was made by HST's STIS MAMA instrument with the F25SRF2 filter (150nm UV). Color was added to the grayscale image using a blue color mapping. A separate grayscale image of Europa, produced using data from the NASA Galileo and Voyager missions, was superimposed to scale. Blue: F25SRF2 |
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