Europa
A cracked ice shell over a hidden ocean — Europa is many scientists' best bet for life beyond Earth.
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About this globe
An ice shell wrapped around a global saltwater ocean holding more water than all of Earth's seas combined. The brown cracks — mapped by Galileo and Voyager — are where the shell has fractured and stained.
That hidden ocean makes Europa one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth.
How the data was captured
Merged from Voyager flyby photographs and the Galileo orbiter's close passes in the 1990s — Galileo photographed some regions from just a few hundred kilometers above the ice.
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