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Diagram of how Europa's atmosphere is created by bombardment from ionized particles. The atmosphere of Europa can be categorized as thin and tenuous (often called an exosphere), primarily composed of oxygen and trace amounts of water vapor. [130] However, this quantity of oxygen is produced in a non-biological manner.
Europa (Jupiter II), the second of the four Galilean moons, is the second closest to Jupiter and the smallest at 3121.6 kilometers in diameter, which is slightly smaller than Earth's Moon. The name comes from a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa , who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete , though the name did not become widely ...
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. [ 15 ] The spacecraft will use gravity assists from Mars on March 1, 2025, [ 10 ] and Earth on December 3, 2026, [ 11 ] before arriving at Europa in April 2030 ...
New research suggests there's less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa than thought — and that could affect what if any life might be lurking in the moon’s underground ocean. As ...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying NASA's Europa Clipper space probe launches from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 14, 2024, on a mission to orbit Jupiter and study its icy moon, Europa, for signs ...
Constrain Europa's thermal evolution and current interior state; Identify the source of the Europan atmosphere and processes by which it is lost; Understand coupling between Europa and Jupiter's ionospheres and coupling of plumes to the flowing plasma; Determine the location, thickness and salinity of the Europan ocean
Jupiter's gas toruses generated by Io (green) and Europa (blue). A gas torus is a toroidal cloud of gas or plasma that encircles a planet or moon. In the Solar System, gas tori tend to be produced by the interaction of a satellite's atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet.
The Europa Lander is an astrobiology mission concept by NASA to send a lander to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] If funded and developed as a large strategic science mission , it would be launched in 2027 to complement the studies by the Europa Clipper orbiter mission and perform analyses on site.