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Voyager 1 Image of Europa

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Voyager 1-68
P-21196C 
March 4, 1979
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View of Europa taken from a range of 2,869,252 kilomters (1.6 million miles) on March 2 at 2:00 PM. 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.