Europa | CosmoVerse

Lunar Overview

A Galilean moon of Jupiter with a global subsurface ocean beneath an icy crust.

Likely ocean world

Surface crossed by ice fractures

Tidally heated interior

Prime target for life-detection missions

Surface & Orbital Metrics

Jupiter

Parent Planet

3,121.6 km

Diameter

4.80 x 10^22 kg

Mass

1.31 m/s^2

Gravity

3.55 days

Orbital Period

3.55 days

Rotation Period

-160 C avg

Surface Temperature

Very thin oxygen atmosphere

Atmosphere

Mission History

No recorded missions in the database for this object.

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