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PIA00366: Europa - Mosaic
Target Name: Europa
Is a satellite of: Jupiter
Mission: Voyager
Spacecraft: Voyager 2
Instrument: Near Infrared Camera
Product Size: 1500 samples x 2000 lines
Produced By: JPL
Producer ID: 260-686
Addition Date: 1996-08-09
Primary Data Set: Voyager EDRs
Full-Res TIFF: PIA00366.tif (3.213 MB)
Full-Res JPEG: PIA00366.jpg (223.4 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:
Europa looks like a cracked egg in this computer mosaic of the best Voyager 2 images. In this presentation, the variation of surface brightness due to the angle of the sun has been removed by computer processing, so that surface features can be seen equally well at all places. The many broad dark streaks show up well, but this presentation does not bring out the much fainter and more enigmatic light streaks. These pictures were taken from a distance of about 250,000 kilometers and show features as small as 5 kilometers across.
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