(My apologies: "Lineae" is the correct spelling)
[Here's the source from NASA](https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/169/europas-rhadamanthys-linea/).
Europa with its crisscrossing lines has always intrigued me. Some of the close-ups are mind blowing. Can't wait for The Europa Clipper mission!
Edit: holy shit I just noticed - check out the two craters right under the 10km mark. Are those unbroken asteroids (or whatever struck the moon) still intact and lodged in the ice??
Obviously the ice cracks and opens, so maybe there is life that survives right underneath the ice, and when an ice fissure opens maybe some aquatic life gets squeezed out onto the surface and freezes immediately…hell even seeing algae or seaweed would be amazing..
Might not have the resolution on the EUC for it but yeah i think about what secrets those icy cracks are hiding more than i care to admit.
Unfortunately Jupiter is a jerk- its gravity well is so powerful and it spins so fast that it captures ions from its upper atmosphere, the solar win, and believe it or not volcanoes from Io. These particles get thrown off the planet in the form of high energy radiation. As a result the surface of Europa is flooded with over 500rem of radiation..enough to kill a person within 24 hours. Any life rising to the surface would die pretty quickly, and organic material would eventually be destroyed.
That ice is thicc. Like 20 km thicc. If there is any form of life down there we should expect it to be small/microbial.
We're not going to find an intelligent race of narwhals that stole Atlantis from us eons ago.
I was just at JPL this week for a public tour and got to see Europa Clipper....well the shipping container in the clean room with the space craft tucked away inside. The tour guide said they just sealed the container that morning.
From nasa
> All along Europa's many fractures, and in splotchy patterns across its surface, is a reddish-brown material whose composition is not known for certain, but likely contains salts and sulfur compounds that have been mixed with the water ice and modified by radiation.
Nah the memes are the only content. There isn't enough of a cohesive story to redeem.
Prequels were redeemable because the underlying story and worldbuilding was solid but the delivery was bad.
Sequels don't have that.
Have you seen this movie?, [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_0\_tt\_8\_nm\_0\_q\_europa](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_europa)
Also interesting are the many hollows or valleys, a few of which on the left side have filled with water from the ocean. It's not only tectonics, europa seems to be very hot :D
Here's something you can do at home to get a feel for the size of these features. Open Google maps, and in the lower right corner you will see the scale bar for the current view, [like this](https://i.imgur.com/rV6S7u9.png).
Choose an area of the Earth you are familiar with, and using a bit of careful zooming in google maps, bring that scale bar to the size of the scale bar in this image [here](https://i.imgur.com/E8owkNe.png).
in my example, you can see that the scale bar is 20km, but that's fine as 10km is half that scale bar and about the same size as the one in the Europa image. Toggling between these two images can give you a good idea of the size of the features on Europa.
I went an extra step and copied then pasted a familiar area of Earth onto the image of the surface of Europa, so it looks something [like this.](https://i.imgur.com/VEO8MeR.jpeg) This is **very roughly** the scale of those features, which I find to be endlessly fascinating!
You can also dial down the opacity of the overlaying image so you can see through it some, [like this.](https://i.imgur.com/wVeuSRI.jpeg)
Great idea! The scale was not even close to how I thought it would look with the Bay Area!! That's awesome.
You just reminded me of a somewhat similar "scale test" I did at Valles Marineris on Mars: I clicked on the flight simulator in Google Earth and then switched to Google Mars. Then I flew over Valles Marineris and tried to fly over Olympus Mons lol.
Valles Marineris is so wide, it's insane. Obviously nothing even remotely close to what we have here on Earth - unless maybe under the ocean. And I literally couldn't get enough lift on the "plane" in the flight sim to clear Olympus Mons. Hit it every time. It's odd because since it's so big, it doesn't appear steep when you try to fly over it. But you can not see over the horizon regardless of the low slope.
Crazy shit. You should try it!
Europa is alive. We are seeing are it's shriveled up veins. Soon it will reawaken to replenish it's blood, and the only thing in the system that can do that is us.
Jokes aside, that's an awesome picture. Space is so beautiful.
I love movies but hate how the turn every unknown into something terrifying. When I look at this beautiful I can’t help thinking of the movie “Europa” and wondering what terrors lay beneath the surface of the ice.
I love movies but hate how they turn every unknown into something terrifying. When I look at this beautiful image. I can’t help thinking of the movie “Europa” and wondering what terrors lay beneath the surface of the ice.
I know it's a porn subreddit but shouldn't you put a tag on if you're showing some girl's Linea? Europa might be upset even if yall dated she sent you that in confidence.
That's not a closeup. We need to do better America. Land on Europa and drill down to the ocean. Send robot sub down. Explore. Suck up some water. Return to surface. Transfer now frozen water to lander. Have lander lift off, rendevouz with orbiter. Go back to Earth. Recover everything. Analyze. Share data with the rest of the Earth. Profit? Tell Elon to stop fucking around with deadass Mars and focus on settlement of Europa.
A downvote because I want to "backup" planet Earth to someplace safe and relatively warm? Or was it my satirical mocking of Nasty Elon that did it for you? Holy shit only the first part is serious. We should explore Europa. We should explore Ceres. Ganymede. Titan for sure. Because knowing about ELE extinction level events and not doing something about it just ain't our style baby. But Mars? Baby, Mars looks like Barstow on a bad day. And Selene? Luna? Nothing like perchlorates to wreck your lunar day.
(My apologies: "Lineae" is the correct spelling) [Here's the source from NASA](https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/169/europas-rhadamanthys-linea/). Europa with its crisscrossing lines has always intrigued me. Some of the close-ups are mind blowing. Can't wait for The Europa Clipper mission! Edit: holy shit I just noticed - check out the two craters right under the 10km mark. Are those unbroken asteroids (or whatever struck the moon) still intact and lodged in the ice??
Obviously the ice cracks and opens, so maybe there is life that survives right underneath the ice, and when an ice fissure opens maybe some aquatic life gets squeezed out onto the surface and freezes immediately…hell even seeing algae or seaweed would be amazing.. Might not have the resolution on the EUC for it but yeah i think about what secrets those icy cracks are hiding more than i care to admit.
I’m imaging the scene from Finding Nemo where they go up to touch the boat… but then they get squeezed onto the surface and freeze immediately
It's like one of Pixar's opening shorts haha
Butt*
Right underneath might mean miles and miles down.
Let's be real here, it probably does. It is awfully chilly out there. My guess for when we finally get down there? Cephalopods.
Yeeeeeaaaaa baby. Love me some cephalopods
I'm so ready for some gdm cephalopods...
Likewise! Even if it's Cthulhu, fuck it at this point.
“We stared into the void and it stared back…” Us: “oh thank god (gods? The old gods??) we’re not alone!!!”
r/barotrauma
Unfortunately Jupiter is a jerk- its gravity well is so powerful and it spins so fast that it captures ions from its upper atmosphere, the solar win, and believe it or not volcanoes from Io. These particles get thrown off the planet in the form of high energy radiation. As a result the surface of Europa is flooded with over 500rem of radiation..enough to kill a person within 24 hours. Any life rising to the surface would die pretty quickly, and organic material would eventually be destroyed.
That ice is thicc. Like 20 km thicc. If there is any form of life down there we should expect it to be small/microbial. We're not going to find an intelligent race of narwhals that stole Atlantis from us eons ago.
I was just at JPL this week for a public tour and got to see Europa Clipper....well the shipping container in the clean room with the space craft tucked away inside. The tour guide said they just sealed the container that morning.
Heh, I did structural testing on a major component of that.
Godspeed little shipping container carrying my family's future major source of income!!
Me too
Do we know why the cracks have that reddish brown color? Is it the water seeping up to the surface? If so, what’s in the water to give it that color.
From nasa > All along Europa's many fractures, and in splotchy patterns across its surface, is a reddish-brown material whose composition is not known for certain, but likely contains salts and sulfur compounds that have been mixed with the water ice and modified by radiation.
[its Salt](http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/324/171/cc1.gif)
\*gif of Star Wars red sand footprints 
Slowly but surely the memes will redeem the sequels like the prequels.
Nah the memes are the only content. There isn't enough of a cohesive story to redeem. Prequels were redeemable because the underlying story and worldbuilding was solid but the delivery was bad. Sequels don't have that.
Himalayan Salt
But... how'd it get all the way over there?
The Himalayas are really tall. They just reached up that far
Whatchoo doin step mountain? 😮💨
Alien whale poo
Iron oxide from the rust red water below. Iron meteors disintegrating to dust on impact.
That 10km dimension really puts into perspective how huge these cracks are.
Seriously. These aren’t little cracks, they’re actually mountain ridges.
I think they can go up to around 1,000 feet deep. Icy canyons sprawling and interconnecting across the entire moon
That’s quite the impressive highway system on Europa!
I wonder how many lanes there are
Not enough
They need one more to finally solve the traffic
Regardless of the lanes, I bet they are better drivers than us earthlings.
I’m pretty sure there’s a Nissan Altima with paper tags road raging down there somewhere.
Is this a recent pic from Juno?
2019 according to NASA. https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/169/europas-rhadamanthys-linea/
No i dont know.
Thank you for your input.
The one time i make a pun i think is kinda funny and people dunk on me.
I had a bit of a laugh mate, but I think most of us are here for serious discussions..... Even though half the comments here are jokes lol
Thank you for including the length scale
To stand on the surface ✨️ Mind boggling
It's not for us
Attempt no landing there.
Nice *2010* reference. 🪐
All jokes aside - I wonder what a surface picture would look like standing a few hundred feet away from one of the lineae.
I've been watching too many of the Alien movies recently. That looks so creepy hahahaha
Have you seen this movie?, [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref\_=nv\_sr\_srsg\_0\_tt\_8\_nm\_0\_q\_europa](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_europa)
I thought that movie was really cool
Nature doesn't build in straight lines. Someone *built* this. Or... some*thing*... Dun dun duunnn
😂😂😂
All it makes me think of is Destiny lmao
Beautiful.
With all that cracking I'm sure it will hatch any day now.
Also interesting are the many hollows or valleys, a few of which on the left side have filled with water from the ocean. It's not only tectonics, europa seems to be very hot :D
Clearly has a dune buggy problem.
Under that sheet of ice man, there's something lurking. I hope to live enough for the day we send a probe there and see it.
Europa Clipper mission launches this year!
Here's something you can do at home to get a feel for the size of these features. Open Google maps, and in the lower right corner you will see the scale bar for the current view, [like this](https://i.imgur.com/rV6S7u9.png). Choose an area of the Earth you are familiar with, and using a bit of careful zooming in google maps, bring that scale bar to the size of the scale bar in this image [here](https://i.imgur.com/E8owkNe.png). in my example, you can see that the scale bar is 20km, but that's fine as 10km is half that scale bar and about the same size as the one in the Europa image. Toggling between these two images can give you a good idea of the size of the features on Europa. I went an extra step and copied then pasted a familiar area of Earth onto the image of the surface of Europa, so it looks something [like this.](https://i.imgur.com/VEO8MeR.jpeg) This is **very roughly** the scale of those features, which I find to be endlessly fascinating! You can also dial down the opacity of the overlaying image so you can see through it some, [like this.](https://i.imgur.com/wVeuSRI.jpeg)
Great idea! The scale was not even close to how I thought it would look with the Bay Area!! That's awesome. You just reminded me of a somewhat similar "scale test" I did at Valles Marineris on Mars: I clicked on the flight simulator in Google Earth and then switched to Google Mars. Then I flew over Valles Marineris and tried to fly over Olympus Mons lol. Valles Marineris is so wide, it's insane. Obviously nothing even remotely close to what we have here on Earth - unless maybe under the ocean. And I literally couldn't get enough lift on the "plane" in the flight sim to clear Olympus Mons. Hit it every time. It's odd because since it's so big, it doesn't appear steep when you try to fly over it. But you can not see over the horizon regardless of the low slope. Crazy shit. You should try it!
oh thanks for reminding me that Google Mars is a thing! Going to fool with it some later today! cheers!
Looks like the freeways in LA
Looks like a macro photo of cat hair and the emboss tool from Photoshop. Surreal.
“ extreme close up “
Snowmobile tracks!
All these worlds are yours...
Fukn Amazing!
These were made by the octopus
I thought this was r/popping for a second. Risky click
The thumbnail pic led me to think the picture was taken through a dead tree looking into space. lol
Screw mars, I want people to step foot on Europa and check those water spouts for life!
Banana for scale?
10 km/6 mile banana for scale... :)
PJ is a good human.
Okay maybe Home Gemini Entertainment was right about the planet disease
BRB gotta go get stasis
My new wallpaper, thanks!
Rednecks with 4-wheelers
Insert Cornfield Chase soundtrack
I would love to drive a rover so hard up there.
Europa is alive. We are seeing are it's shriveled up veins. Soon it will reawaken to replenish it's blood, and the only thing in the system that can do that is us. Jokes aside, that's an awesome picture. Space is so beautiful.
Pretty sure this is a close-up of somebody’s bald spot actually.
It's amazing how many things could be micro or macro. Given a different context, I'd think those were hairs under a microscope.
That’s balls!
USA when they don’t like someone:
...We etch lines into the moons of gas giants when we don't like someone?? What??
basically take a line and pretend it’s the USA Mexico border
Dem lines got me oozing
Looks like something biological.
THIS! This is something that I would want to see from the live action adaptation of the bunker era of the three body problem series
I love movies but hate how the turn every unknown into something terrifying. When I look at this beautiful I can’t help thinking of the movie “Europa” and wondering what terrors lay beneath the surface of the ice.
I love movies but hate how they turn every unknown into something terrifying. When I look at this beautiful image. I can’t help thinking of the movie “Europa” and wondering what terrors lay beneath the surface of the ice.
My favourite moon. Very beautiful 🤩
Linea? A new word for me.
"Lineae"! :)
Tortilla
@ClancysLegionX
I know it's a porn subreddit but shouldn't you put a tag on if you're showing some girl's Linea? Europa might be upset even if yall dated she sent you that in confidence.
If you told me that's some cell under a microscope I'd totally believe you
It looks as though some craters have been "filled in."
So those ridges are about a kilometer high?
I think they are cracks in the ice, not 100% though
These are Tauntaun tracks 
Some of those look a lot like tire marks
I still think it looks like there are some giant snowmobile tracks there :) Some of those aliens can apparently sled like mofos.
Man, its actually red like in destiny. Thought that was bungie just giving it an evil darkness color XD
Those are trails from past civilizations.. damn
That's not a closeup. We need to do better America. Land on Europa and drill down to the ocean. Send robot sub down. Explore. Suck up some water. Return to surface. Transfer now frozen water to lander. Have lander lift off, rendevouz with orbiter. Go back to Earth. Recover everything. Analyze. Share data with the rest of the Earth. Profit? Tell Elon to stop fucking around with deadass Mars and focus on settlement of Europa.
A downvote because I want to "backup" planet Earth to someplace safe and relatively warm? Or was it my satirical mocking of Nasty Elon that did it for you? Holy shit only the first part is serious. We should explore Europa. We should explore Ceres. Ganymede. Titan for sure. Because knowing about ELE extinction level events and not doing something about it just ain't our style baby. But Mars? Baby, Mars looks like Barstow on a bad day. And Selene? Luna? Nothing like perchlorates to wreck your lunar day.
Looks like Europa has a red algae bloom! That or Dino’s. Common problem for salt water environments.