Juno what? Jovian moon Europa is looking rugged
NASA's Juno probe had a close encounter with the Jovian moon Europa on September 29 and this week the space agency released the highest resolution photograph ever taken of its icy crust.
The hope is that where there is water, you could host life – but Europa would need some other essential building blocks like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur to name a few. So although it appears a desolate snowball on the surface, it may be one of the best candidates in the Solar System for hosting alien life, hence the close-up during Juno's flyby.captures about 93 miles by 125 miles , bringing into awesome focus the network of ridges and grooves that crisscross the moon.
The black-and-white photo was taken with Juno's Stellar Reference Unit , a star camera used to orient the spacecraft, at a distance of 256 miles . The camera's resolution ranges from 840 to 1,115 feet per pixel. The snap was shot as Juno zipped past the nighttime region at 15 miles per second , though"Jupiter shine" – sunlight reflected off Jupiter's clouds – cast a dim light on the terrain.
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