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PIA01970: Europa from 2,869,252 Kilometers
This view of Europa captured by NASA's Voyager 1 was taken from a range of 2,869,252 kilometers (1.6 million miles) on March 2 at 2:00 PM. The color composite is made from three black and white images taken through the orange, green and violet filters.
 Target Name:  Europa
 Is a satellite of:  Jupiter
 Mission:  Voyager 
 Spacecraft:  Voyager 1
 Instrument:  VG ISS - Narrow Angle 
 Product Size:  450 x 450 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Producer ID:  P21196  
 Addition Date:  1999-06-16 
 Primary Data Set:  Voyager EDRs 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA01970.tif (308.7 kB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA01970.jpg (9.707 kB)  

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View of Europa taken from a range of 2,869,252 kilometers (1.6 million miles) on March 2 at 2:00 PM. The color composite is made from three black and white images taken through the orange, green and violet filters. The 170 longitude is at the center of the picture; this is the face away from Jupiter. Irregular dark and bright patches on the surface are different from the patterns on the other satellites of Jupiter and those on the Moon, Mars and Mercury. Dark intersecting lines may be faults that break the crust. JPL manages and controls the Voyager Project for NASA's Office of Space Science.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL

Image Addition Date:
1999-06-16