Portrait image of the very cracked and lined surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, showing numerous parallel lines that overlap and intersect. One set of darker streaks cuts across and down the image from right to left.

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   SETI Institute (setiinstitute@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 15:40:24 JST SETI Institute

   #PPOD: Wallpaper Wednesday - Europa

   NASA's Galileo spacecraft imaged a portion of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa on Dec. 16, 1997. This picture uses the monochrome raw image data with color synthesized to approximate natural hues. West on Europa is toward the top. Definitely need a 4-wheel drive for this one, but what an amazing landscape!

   Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
   Processing: J. Major

   #space #science #scicomm