Voyager 2 Image of Europa
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OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011 PHOTO CAPTION Voyager 2 P-2175l C July 9, 1979
This image of Europa was taken by Voyager 2 about noon on Sunday, July 8, from a range of 1.2 million kilometers. It shows detail about 20 kilometers across and is somewhat higher resolution than the best Voyager 1 image. The part of Europa shown is the hemisphere that will be viewed at even higher resolution Monday morning during Voyager 2's encounter with Europa, Color reconstruction in this image was slightly enhanced to bring out detail in the complicated mottled region on the west limb, containing some of the linear fracture-like features discovered by Voyager 1. The regions in the north and south polar areas which appear bluish in this version are in fact white.