What is Europe?

Europa is one of the Galilean months of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo Galilei using a primitive telescope in 1610. These four months, Io, Europe, Ganymede and Callisto, are by far the largest natural satellites of Jupiter. Europe is the smallest of the Galilean months. With an average of 3000 km it is slightly smaller than the Earth's month. Europe is appointed for Mrs. Zeus in Greek mythology. Jupiter, the orbits of Planet Europa, was named after the Roman name for Zeus. This helped to replace the geocentric view of the cosmology of the heliocentric Coperican version. Europa orbits around Jupiter every three days and approximately orbit from Jupiter slightly less than double the distance from Earth to the moon. Like the other Galilean satellites and our month, Europa is tidyly locked to Jupiter, which means that the same party always faces, while the other side is heading away.

The appearance of Europe is the appearance of the white sphere with hWith some cracks and spots everywhere. Europe, which consists mainly of silicate rock, has a thin layer of ice, which some scientists believe by planetary scientists believe that it could hide the liquid water ocean. Europa has one of the smoothest surfaces in the solar system. Due to the possibility of water oceans, Europe has been a proposed goal for several decades, but the funds have not yet taken place for the mission. The other months that may have subsurface oceans include Ganymede and Callisto.

The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (Jimo) project, which would use the Radar penetrating the LED to search for such oceans, was canceled in 2005 to change the priorities in NASA in favor of missions with the crew. The spacecraft was supposed to contain innovative functions such as a nuclear fission engine and energy source, which would give it a thousand times the electric power of conventional space probes driven by solar panels and radio -electric thermal generators.