Unmasking Europa - The Search for Life on Jupiter's Ocean Moon

Professor Richard Greenberg was a 25-year member of the Galileo Imaging Team and is currently a member of a science definition team that is planning a possible NASA flagship mission to Europa. He led a small group of graduate students at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in analyzing Galileo's high-resolution views of Europa in the last decade. Galileo showed Europa's surface is anything but smooth. Its surface is covered with vast crisscrossing systems of mountain-sized ridges, jumbled regions of seemingly chaotic terrain and patches that suggest upwellings of new surface materials from below.

Topic(s)

Science topics

Date

February 13, 2009

Presenter(s)

Greenberg, Richard

Object(s)

Europa

Mission(s)/Instrument(s)

Galileo