Chaos reigns in detailed new views of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

[ad_1] A region of Europa’s surface dubbed Chaos Transition shows messy blocks on the left and long ridges on the right. (Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SETI Institute) Scientists have gotten their best look to date at three chaotic patches on the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa thanks to decade-old images from a … Read more

NASA recovers stunning ‘chaotic’ terrain from Jupiter’s moon Europa

[ad_1] NASA has reprocessed photos of Jupiter’s moon Europa that had been captured by its Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s. (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SETI Institute)Details in this gallery of three recently reprocessed images of Europe are visible in the variety of features on the moon’s icy surface. This image from an area called … Read more

NASA approaches the puzzling ‘chaos terrain’ of Jupiter’s moon Europa

[ad_1] NASA reprocessed Galileo’s images of Europe and came up with this beauty. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SETI Institute Jupiter’s funky moon Europa represents one of our best shots to find signs of life beyond Earth in our solar system. NASA will send a future mission to study frozen Europe, but in the meantime we … Read more