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Europa is also considered to be geologically active due to the constant release of hydrogen-oxygen mixtures into space. As a result of the moon's particle venting, the atmosphere requires continuous replenishment. [131] Europa also contains a small magnetosphere (approximately 25% of Ganymede's).
Europa, a series of board wargames launched in 1973 Europa postage stamp , issued annually since 1956, representing the founding six members of the European Coal and Steel Community Prix Europa , Europe's largest annual tri-medial (television, radio and online) festival and competition
Europa Clipper (previously known as Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) is a space probe developed by NASA to study Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter. It was launched on October 14, 2024. [ 15 ] The spacecraft will use gravity assists from Mars on March 1, 2025, [ 10 ] and Earth on December 3, 2026, [ 11 ] before arriving at Europa in April 2030 ...
In classical Greek mythology, Europa (Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē) was a Phoenician princess. One view is that her name derives from the Ancient Greek elements εὐρύς ( eurús ) 'wide, broad', and ὤψ ( ōps , gen. ὠπός , ōpós ) 'eye, face, countenance', hence their composite Eurṓpē would mean 'wide-gazing' or ...
Europa does not seem to have been venerated directly in cult anywhere in classical Greece, [note 8] but at Lebadaea in Boeotia, Pausanias noted in the 2nd century AD that Europa was the epithet of Demeter—"Demeter whom they surname Europa and say was the nurse of Trophonios"—among the Olympians who were addressed by seekers at the cave ...
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent, Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [2] ...
Geography of Europe; Several of the oldest cities of Northwestern Europe are highlighted in this astronaut's photograph from 00:25 GMT on 10 August 2011: Area: 10,180,000 km 2 (3,930,000 sq mi) (6th)
Groupings by compass directions are the hardest to define in Europe, since there are a few calculations of the midpoint of Europe (among other issues), and the pure geographical criteria of "east" and "west" are often confused with the political meaning these words acquired during the Cold War era.