You think all moons are grey???

Steve Iannetti · GweiLo Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 697

Is it Europa ? One of Jupiter's moons ?

MIKE BURN

Not bad Steve

It is the Jupiter moon IO !!!

Here's another view:

markhewer · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 246

hey that's cool Mike! I always enjoy your space photos :yo

MIKE BURN · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:13 am Post subject: You think all moons are grey???

You know which moon this is???

(real photograph... no painting!)

MIKE

Steve Iannetti · GweiLo Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Posts: 697

Europa was the only Jupiter moon I could remember. haha

Now that I have cheated and looked them up, they are:

Amalthea, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Io is a beatiful sight.

ReBop · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 10

Cool! ...good one Mike... thanks.

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

stunning. Looks like silk brocaded randomly.

MIKE BURN · Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:46 am Post subject: Re: wow

I am always excited about what the Universe has for us earthlings to offer

Here's some english description of IO:

Quote:
Jupiter's moon Io [EYE-oh or EE-oh] is one of the most exotic places in the solar system. It is the most volcanic body known, with lava flows, lava lakes, and giant calderas covering its sulfurous landscape. It has billowing volcanic geysers spewing sulfurous plumes to over 500 kilometers high. Its mountains are much taller than those on Earth, reaching heights of 16 kilometers (52,000 feet).

Io orbits closer to Jupiter's cloud tops than the moon does to Earth. This places Io within an intense radiation belt that bathes the satellite with energetic electrons, protons, and heavier ions. As the Jovian magnetosphere rotates, it sweeps past Io and strips away about 1,000 kilograms (1 ton) per second of volcanic gases and other materials. This produces a neutral cloud of atoms orbiting with Io as well as a huge, doughnut shaped torus of ions that glow in the ultraviolet.

The torus's heavy ions migrate outward, and their pressure inflates the Jovian magnetosphere to more than twice its expected size. Some of the more energetic sulfur and oxygen ions fall along the magnetic field into the planet's atmosphere, resulting in auroras. Io acts as an electrical generator as it moves through Jupiter's magnetic field, developing 400,000 volts across its diameter and generating an electric current of 3 million amperes that flows along the magnetic field to the planet's ionosphere.

Rev9Volts · Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 1327

hioly moly mike! thanks for it all.

bbchris

WOW! What a gorgeous looking moon. Thanks for posting the pic Mike! :banana

dj spaceAce · Joined: 23 Nov 2001 Posts: 448

fantastic

...i tell ya ..."there is LI[O]VE" outside :alien

dj spaceAce aka Y-Orbit

MIKE BURN

BTW... Jupiter's moon EUROPA is looking like an alive organism, isn't it?

Quote:
This image of Europa and an enlargement of the Thrace region gives visual evidence of the dramatic advance in our knowledge of Jupiter's second Galilean satellite due to the Galileo mission.

Prior to the Galileo mission, scientists' knowledge of Europa was simply a small ice- covered moon with an exceptionally bright surface covered by faint curved and linear markings. Now, scientists see evidence of a young and thin, cracked and ruptured ice shell, probably moving slowly over the surface of a briny ocean that is 100 kilometers (62 miles) or more deep.

Europa has become recognized as a potential habitat for extraterrestrial life and is now an important target for future solar system exploration.

AQUARIAN AGE · Austrian Peacekeeper Joined: 22 Dec 2001 Posts: 612

Wahhh, what are you doing Mike? :bigeyes

Everyone knows we should stay away from Europa. Haven´t you seen 2001 and 2010? :eyebrow

debbie mannas · Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 1352

those criss-crossings look like roadways and highways and waterways and and and - looks busy!

is it only cracked ice? hmmmph

:ww

KristinaBode · Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 409

Wonderful pictures....

This white colour - is that ice?

GEMINI