APOD: 2019 November 29 - Galileo s Europa Remastered

Good Red Friday morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Galileo's Europa Remastered." In this image, the polar regions of Europa are to the right (north) and left (south). The Galileo spacecraft was launched from the shuttle Atlantis in October 1989, and arrived at Jupiter in December 1995. One of its key science discoveries was evidence of a global ocean under the icy surface of the Jovian moon. Given the presence of life at depth in our own oceans, this makes Europa one of the best places in our Solar System to look for life beyond Earth.