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PIA21922: Europa Scene: Plume, Galileo, Magnetic Field (Artist's Concept)
Artist's illustration of Jupiter and Europa (in the foreground) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from Europa's surface.
 Target Name:  Europa
 Product Size:  4488 x 5960 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA21922.tif (24.66 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA21922.jpg (1.385 MB)  

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Artist's illustration of Jupiter and Europa (in the foreground) with the Galileo spacecraft after its pass through a plume erupting from Europa's surface.

A new computer simulation gives us an idea of how the magnetic field interacted with a plume. The magnetic field lines (depicted in blue) show how the plume interacts with the ambient flow of Jovian plasma. The red colors on the lines show more dense areas of plasma.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Michigan

Image Addition Date:
2018-05-14