Europa

Europa • Sol Vb
Astrographical information
System	SOL
Orbital Body	Jupiter
Position	2nd
Physical information
Diameter	3,121.6 km
Gravity	0.134 g (1.314 m/s2)
Length of day	3.55 days
Atmospheric pressure	0.1 µPa
Temperature	50 K / -223.15 °C (min) 102 K / -171.15 °C (average) 125 K / -148.15 °C (max)
Societal information
Species	Human
Government	United Nations (pre-FNC) Transportation Union / unified human jurisdiction (post-FNC)

Europa, also "Jupiter II", is is the sixth closest moon of Jupiter, and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites, but still the sixth-largest moon in the Sol system.

Europa is slightly smaller than Luna and is primarily made of silicate rock with a water-ice crust. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen.

History

Europa has a human settlement, which grows vegetables and beef in big mirror-fed greenhouses and supply food to the Belt.

Pastor Anna Volovodov worked at St. John’s United congregation of Methodists on Europa, which consisted of less than a hundred people, before she was chosen to be a part of UNN Thomas Prince's religious delegation to the Ring.

Free Navy Conflict

Europa is one of several targets of the Consolidated Fleet in their all-out offensive against the Free Navy. It is later mentioned that the Fleet captured a significant number of prisoners from Europa, indicating that the moon fell during the offensive.

Media

• Comparison: Earth / Luna / Europa
• Comparison: Jupiter's Galilean moons

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Trivia

• As early as 1995, NASA's Galileo Mission, was able to determine a salty water filled ocean existed under a frozen crust. The presence of water, may have be a strong reason why a colony was founded at that site in Expanse universe.
• Europa was a Phoenician princess who was abducted and taken to Crete by Zeus in the form of a bull where she bore him three children.

• It is only around 300 kilometers smaller than Luna in diameter, but still bigger than Pluto.
• Europa may have twice the amount of water that there is on Earth.
• Because of its icy surface, Europa is one of the brightest moons in the Sol system.
• It has a very thin oxygen atmosphere as the solar radiation from Jupiter breaks up hydrogen atoms into water and oxygen.
• The yellowish brown lines on Europa are actually cracks from the ice surface.

External links

•  Europa (moon) on Wikipedia