Best-Yet Images of Europa To Be Presented on Jan 17

Douglas Isbell
Headquarters, Washington, DC                     January 13, 1997
(Phone: 202/358-1753)

NOTE TO EDITORS: N97-3

New images from NASA's Galileo mission showing remarkably diverse styles of geologic resurfacing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa will be discussed in a press briefing at 1 p.m. EST on Friday, Jan. 17. The briefing will originate from the auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, and will be carried live on NASA Television.

Most of the images to be discussed were taken during Galileo's close pass of the Jovian moon on Dec. 19, 1996, when the spacecraft came within 430 miles of Europa's surface, which may cover a liquid subsurface ocean. Galileo flew more than 200 times closer to Europa than the Voyager 2 spacecraft did in 1979.

Participants in the briefing will include Galileo imaging team scientists Dr. Ron Greeley and Dr. Robert Sullivan, both of Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

NASA Television is available through the Spacenet 2 satellite on transponder 5, channel 9, 69 degrees West longitude, frequency 3880 MHz, audio subcarrier 6.8 MHz, horizontal polarization.

Note: The new images of Europa will be released on the Galileo home page:

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/

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