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Palomar

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From: USA

Registered: 2002-05-30

Posts: 9,734

Re: Europa Rotating

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010116.html]From Voyager

*Saw this just today.  Maybe all regions aren't resolved in high detail, but it's an amazing image nonetheless.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

Shaun Barrett

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From: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Registered: 2001-12-28

Posts: 2,843

Re: Europa Rotating

It sure is amazing.   
    I suppose it'll only be a decade or two until we have detailed maps of every planetary and satellite surface in our system. Haven't we come a long way in the last 40 years?
                                                       

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