Europa
moon of Jupiter
5.37 AU from Earth
A shell of ice cracked into long red streaks, floating on a global ocean holding twice the water of Earth's seas.
- radius 1,561 km · ice shell 15 to 25 km thick
- one of the best places to look for life
Numbers that change with time are from 8 November 2026.
open Europa in the atlas ›- kind
- place in the Solar System · moon or small world
- distance
- 671,034 km from Jupiter
- size
- 3,120 km across
- orbits
- Jupiter