Europa the moon of Jupiter

Published by Rahul Aggrawal on January 10, 2019January 10, 2019

Europa the moon of Jupiter

Europa is one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter. The surface of Europa is solidified, secured with a layer of ice, however, researchers think there is a sea underneath the surface.

 Specialists utilizing the Hubble Space Telescope recognized a conceivable water tuft flying from Europa’s south polar locale in 2012.

A few shuttle have done flybys of Europa (counting Pioneers 10 and 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 during the 1970s). The Galileo rocket completed a long haul mission at Jupiter and its moons somewhere in the range of 1995 and 2003.

Both NASA and the European Space Agency plan missions to Europa and different moons that would leave Earth during the 2020s.

Europa is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old, about the same age of Jupiter.Europa’s distance from the sun is about 485 million miles (or 780 million kilometers).

Europa is Jupiter’s sixth satellite. Its orbital distance from Jupiter is 414,000 miles (670,900 km). It takes Europa three and a half Earth-days to orbit Jupiter. Europa is tidally locked, so the same side faces Jupiter at all times.

Europa is 1,900 miles (3,100 km) in diameter, making it smaller than Earth’s moon, but larger than Pluto. It is the smallest of the Galilean moons.

Europa’s surface temperature at the equator never rises above minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 160 degrees Celsius). At the poles of the moon, the temperature never rises above minus 370 F (minus 220 C).

To be continued….