Cassini–Huygens mission, as far as i know it landed there.
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sweet
what would be sweet if we could swap our moon with europa.
we would have beautiful oceanic world over our heads.
(under heat it would expand a little bit also, and might be the actual size of our moon - the gravitational pull would be similar but i think europa might create some quite amazing like a stairway to heaven as earth would be sucking its water out very very slowly)
wouldnt it being closer to the sun evaporate all that?
no, it would be the same distance as earth is. We would just swap our moon for it. Atmosphere would rise quite quickly as ice melts - and winds and additional protection from earth magnetic fields would also protect it..
it would be quite beautiful.
Master Evil plan swap our moon.
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There would be less tidal forces acting on it, so it probably wouldn't have as large of an ocean.
im skeptical cause it's way way far out with jupiter at the moment (where the sun is a speck in the sky) and if switched with our earth's moon it would be so close to the sun i doubt it would stay the same even in earth magnetosphere
Temperatures on the moon can reach about 115°C, so the ice would definitely melt, and the atmosphere would probably be non-existent, or mostly water vapour.
the atmosphere would rise, protecting against such temperatures (earth would also have 115'C in direct sun or -100 or something when in shadow... It would be in habitable zone, vapor wouldn't escape the gravitational field of europa and might actually be taken by earth's gravitation (but it would take couple of millions of years before that happens.)
by mass europa is much heavier than our moon. It would expand when its heated up, we would get our tidal waves.
Providing us with quite nice world to see from earth. A blue ball, and at night europa would shine very brightly. We would see clouds, and other specific weather systems. Bigger life might evolve with higher temperatures, and if life didn't develop on europa under ice cap waters we could move our own marine life there. Just imagine the ocean of eden.
Every1 would need to travel to moon, we would have booming space industry.
and if some1 thinks europa is too small and its not worth having blue ball as our moon for at least 2millions of years.
Unless some1 can find a way to generate stable atmosphere on our current moon and make water out of solid rock.
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i was pretty bummed 5 years ago, glad it all worked out
http://global.jaxa.jp/article/2016/interview/vol95/index.html
freaking excited to see venus
http://spaceflightnow.com/2015/12/09/akatsuki-probe-relays-its-first-images-from-venus-orbit/
wanna see how it looks on the ground?
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amazing that those things just got crushed by the atmosphere
Blue Origin livestream.
Do you know their flight plan? Same as last time?
Think it's exactly the same as last time.
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Its so tiny.
Hello everyone, it's been a while since I've posted here.
We are in the heart of the Milky Way season here in Australia and I recently drove 3hrs out of Perth city to the very scenic town of Dunsborough, Western Australia. This image captures the full arch Milky Way over the local rock feature "Sugarloaf Rock" in Dunsborough. It consist of 35 individual images shot on a Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm ART lens combo, stitched in Autopano Giga.
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