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Icy cliffs on Europa (extreme detail mgnf)
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This image, taken by the camera onboard NASA's Galileo spacecraft, is a very HR view of the Conamara Chaos region on Jupiter's moon Europa. It shows an area where icy plates have been broken apart and moved around laterally. The top of this image is dominated by corrugated plateaux ending in icy cliffs over a hundred meters (a few hundred feet) high. Debris piled at the base of the cliffs can be resolved down to blocks the size of a house. A fracture that runs horizontally across and just below the center of the Europa image is about the width of a freeway.
North is to the top right of the image, and the sun illuminates the surface from the east. The image is centered at approx. 9° North Latitude and 274° West Longitude. The image covers an area approx. 1,7 by 4 Km (about 1 by 2,5 miles). The resolution is 9 mt (roughly 30 feet) per picture element. This image was taken on December 16, 1997 at a range of 900 Km (about 540 miles) by Galileo's Solid State Imaging System.
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(Dettagli)
