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PIA00366: Europa - Mosaic
 Target Name:  Europa
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 2
 Instrument:  Near Infrared Camera 
 Product Size:  1500 x 2000 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  JPL
 Producer ID:  260-686
 Addition Date:  1996-08-09
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA00366.tif (3.213 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA00366.jpg (223.4 kB)

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Europa looks like a cracked egg in this computer mosaic of the best Voyager 2 images. In this presentation, the variation of surface brightness due to the angle of the sun has been removed by computer processing, so that surface features can be seen equally well at all places. The many broad dark streaks show up well, but this presentation does not bring out the much fainter and more enigmatic light streaks. These pictures were taken from a distance of about 250,000 kilometers and show features as small as 5 kilometers across.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1996-08-09