Galileo got there first (Image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Colorado)
A RIGOROUS analysis of the jagged terrain of Jupiter’s moon Europa is helping to identify safe landing strips for future missions.
Europa is thought to have an ocean of water beneath its icy shell. The latest study is the first to use images from the , which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, to generate measurements of Europa’s slopes. “This is the first quantitative sampling that gives hard numbers, real numbers that you can believe,” says of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.
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