Galileo Spacecraft Images of Jupiter's Moon Europa with Improved Locations

481 minimally processed, projected images of Europa's surface were acquired by NASA's Galileo Solid State Imager. These individual images were used to create 92 observation mosaics, providing nearly the entire Galileo Europa imaging dataset at native resolution. The dataset addresses significant original location errors of up to 100 km through photogrammetric improvements.

Use Cases

• Analyzing Europa's surface geology and morphology based on high-resolution targeted images.
• Mission planning for future flybys or landers based on improved relative image locations.
• Creating detailed global or regional maps of Europa based on the 92 observation mosaics.
• Studying surface feature alignment and changes across different Galileo orbits.

Strengths

• Contains 481 individual images, providing extensive coverage of Europa.
• Offers photogrammetrically improved locations, correcting original errors of up to 100 km.
• Includes 92 observation mosaics compiled from the individual images.
• Represents the only moderate- to high-resolution images of Europa from the Galileo mission.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

NASA

Collection Method

Images acquired by the Solid State Imager (SSI) on NASA's Galileo spacecraft and subsequently processed for improved locations.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa.