New Horizons at Europa |
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Time to start a thread about a far more interesting jovian moon
![]() Passing probe to study 'crop circles' on Europa 17:38 27 February 2007 NewScientist.com news service Kelly Young |
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Thanks, Gordan. Now we're getting somewhere!
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As mentioned in the general NH at Jupiter thread, the first Europa image is down. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/gallery/missionPho...s/022807_2.html And this is the viewing geometry: I'm a bit frustrated that these are probably the best images we'll be seeing of the Galileans until the 2020s or later (except possibly for occasional images from huge future Earth-based telescopes). Having seen Cassini at Saturn as compared to Galileo at Jupiter makes me wish there was a 'Galileo 2' or something comparable. |
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I'm a bit frustrated that these are probably the best images we'll be seeing of the Galileans until the 2020s or later (except possibly for occasional images from huge future Earth-based telescopes). Probably. However, crude as they might be, I wonder if JunoCam or the imagers on NASA's proposed Solar Probe, which is baselined for a 2015 Jupiter gravity assist, might return something useful. |
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