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Europa in color: subjovian to leading hemisphere
Filed under pretty pictures, global views, amateur image processing, Jupiter's moons, Europa, Galileo
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Galileo captured this global view of Europa on its 9th orbit of Jupiter, on June 27, 1997.
NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk
The filters used for this image cover a broader range of the spectrum than human eyes can see. Galileo was 1,248,000 kilometers from Europa when it took this image, at a phase angle of just 4 degrees. Image scale is 12.7 kilometers per pixel.
Copyright holder: Ted Stryk
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about June 27, 1997
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