Bruce Murray Space Image Library
Europa in color: trailing hemisphere (Galileo, 7 September 1996)
![Europa in color: trailing hemisphere (Galileo, 7 September 1996)](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x576_crop_center-center_60_line/20120908_europa_g2_stryk.jpg 576w)
The filters used for this image cover a broader range of the spectrum than human eyes can see. Galileo was 678,000 kilometers from Europa when it took this image, at a phase angle of just 2 degrees. Image scale is 6.9 kilometers per pixel.