Europa: Cryogeyser moon of Jupiter
Europa is the smallest of the 4 large Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Europa is the ice moon of jupiter, possessing a subsurface water ocean and cryogeysers. It has the smoothest surface of any body in the solar system and has a thin oxygen atmosphere.
Europa, along with Callisto, Ganymede, and Io, (the Galilean moons) were discovered by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1610.
For a listing of all moons, see Moons of the Planets.
Europa Facts
- Mass (kg)
- 4.8 x 1022
- Radius (km)
- 1,569
- Density (gm/cm3)
- 3.01
- Distance from planet (km)
- 670,900
- Rotational period (days)
- 3.551181
- Orbital period (days)
- 3.551181
- Orbital velocity (km/sec)
- 13.74
- Eccentricity of orbit
- 0.009
- Inclination of orbit (°)
- 0.470
- Albedo
- 0.64
- Magnitude
- 5.29
- Atmosphere
- trace oxygen
Europa Surface Map
