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The John Batchelor Show

Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com: Images of Europa

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com: Images of Europa

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0:30.1

Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman is here and we're going exploring Europa Clipper is launched on its way however

0:36.7

Bob you tell me the JPL has given us something really cool. What is it? Yeah this is this is really cool actually What JPL has done has done is it put together a website. It calls it the Europa Trek portal.

0:50.0

And I've got a link to it on behind the black and what this does is it gives anyone a very easy access to every single high resolution picture that the past Jupiter orbiters, Voyager, Galileo, and Juno, these are the kind of spacecrafts that

1:08.4

went past or orbit in Jupiter.

1:12.1

Every image they took of Europa while they were there.

1:15.0

And what's interesting is it's not just a list of images,

1:18.0

it's linked to a global image, a map of the planet.

1:22.0

And so you not only can see the image and a detailed

1:26.6

description of what the image is about, but you can also see where it is in the

1:32.3

context of the planet.

1:33.4

It's very, very cool and this is of course in anticipation of when

1:36.7

Europe it gets there in 2030 or so.

1:39.9

They will of course begin adding I think Europa Clipper images to this website when the time comes but for anyone who's interested this is really cool

1:48.1

This is the ice skater Bob. This is this is what the surface looks like the ice skater and the northern hemisphere.

1:54.4

What are those? Are those craters, Bob or punches through the ice?

1:58.0

What are we...

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