Europa (Satellite of Jupiter)

Full size image of Europa (81 KB.)

Constants

•  Mean Radius:               1,562.09 km       

•  Mass:                      0.0081 (Earth=1)  

•  Density:                   3.018 (g/cm^3)     

•  Gravity:                   0.135 (Earth=1)   

•  Orbit Period:              3.551 (Earth days)

•  Rotation Period:           3.551 (Earth days)

•  Semimajor Axis of Orbit:   670,900 km        

•  Eccentricity of Orbit:     0.009             

Europa Nomenclature

Official names of features on Europa as approved by the International Astronomical Union.

Jupiter Satellites Voyager and Galileo Global Mosaics

Global image maps of Io and other Jovian satellites created from Voyager and Galileo imagery.