How much sun does Europa get?
Europa’s surface is made of water ice and so it reflects 5.5 times the sunlight than our Moon does.
Can there be life on Europa?
Europa’s surface is blasted by radiation from Jupiter. That’s a bad thing for life on the surface – it couldn’t survive. But the radiation may create fuel for life in an ocean below the surface. The radiation splits apart water molecules (H2O, made of oxygen and hydrogen) in Europa’s extremely tenuous atmosphere.
Is Jupiter a Lightyear away?
Astronomers have found a Jupiter-like planet orbiting a star just 12 light years away from Earth, making it the closest confirmed gas giant outside the solar system.
How many light year away is Jupiter?
0.00008233217279125351 light years
How far is Voyager 2 from Earth now?
Voyager 2 is now in its extended mission of studying Interstellar Space and has been operating for 43 years, 10 months and 22 days as of May 28, 2021, reaching a distance of 126.9 AU (19.0 billion km; 11.8 billion mi) from Earth.
Where is Voyager one and two now?
Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached “Interstellar space” and each continue their unique journey through the Universe. In the NASA Eyes on the Solar System app, you can see the real spacecraft trajectories of the Voyagers, which are updated every five minutes.
How long will it take Voyager to reach Alpha Centauri?
40,000 years
How long will it take Voyager 1 to travel a light year?
Voyager 1. Voyager 1, Earth’s most distant spacecraft, left the solar system and entered interstellar space in 2012. According to NASA, it is currently speeding away at 38,200 mph. For Voyager 1 to travel 39 light-years, it would take the spacecraft 685,000 years.
How fast is Voyager 1 per second?
about 17 kilometers per second
How long until Voyager reaches the Oort Cloud?
about 300 years
Can we see the Oort Cloud?
Predicted Realm. The Oort Cloud is a predicted collection of icy objects farther away than everything else in the solar system. It fits with observations of comets in the planetary region of the solar system, but scientists have yet to observe any object in the Oort Cloud itself.