Jupiter and its Moon Europa (IMAGE)

University of California - Los Angeles

Jupiter and its Moon Europa

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An illustration of a plume at Jupiter's moon, Europa, encountered by NASA's Galileo spacecraft during its closest flyby. As confirmed by a computer simulation, the observed magnetic field topology (lines) and plasma density enhancement (colors on the lines) are consistent with perturbations generated by a plume.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech and Xianzhe Jia/University of Michigan

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