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Know about the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and the possibility of life beneath it
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Know about the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa and the possibility of life beneath it
An overview of Jupiter's moon Europa, including a discussion about the possibility...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Europa
Crescent view of Europa, one of Jupiter's four large, Galilean moons, in a composite...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
icy surface of Europa
An elaborate tracery of ridged plain on the icy surface of Europa, as imaged by the...
JPL/NASA
Europa
Two views of the trailing hemisphere of Jupiter's ice-covered satellite, Europa,...
NASA/JPL/DLR
Europa's ice crust
Severely fractured area in the equatorial zone of Europa's ice crust, imaged by the...
NASA/JPL
Jupiter's four Galilean moons
Montage of Jupiter's four Galilean moons—(left to right) Io, Europa, Ganymede, and...
NASA/JPL/DLR
surface of Europa
An elaborately patterned area of disrupted ice crust on Europa's surface, shown in...
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona