Juno, NASA’s space orbiter that recently completed a close flyby of Europa, has captured the highest-ever resolution close-up of a specific portion of the icy moon.
This image shows a specific portion of Europa and reveals a detailed view of the moon’s icy surface which is covered in scratches and fractures., the image covers a space of about 93 miles by 125 miles of the moon’s surface and reveals a region crisscrossed with a network of grooves and double ridges.
“Near the upper right of the image, as well as just to the right and below center, are dark stains possibly linked to something from below erupting onto the surface. Below center and to the right is a surface feature that recalls a musical quarter note, measuring 42 miles north-south by 23 miles east-west. The white dots in the image are signatures of penetrating high-energy particles from the severe radiation environment around the moon,” the space agency says.
The camera that captured the photo is called the Stellar Reference Unit or SRU which is designed for low-light conditions. It is a star camera typically used to orient the spacecraft but was, in this case, used to obtain the black and white image above during Juno’s close-quarters flyby of Europa on September 29. That flyby brought Juno exceptionally close to Jupiter’s icy moon at a distance of about 256 miles.
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