EUROPA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Europa mean? 

• EUROPA (noun)
  The noun EUROPA has 1 sense:

1. the 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites; covered with a smooth shell of frozen water

  Familiarity information: EUROPA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EUROPA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The 4th largest of Jupiter's satellites; covered with a smooth shell of frozen water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

Galilean; Galilean satellite (one of the four satellites of Jupiter that were discovered by Galileo)

 Context examples 

On March 8, 2015, Europa passed in front of Io from the perspective of Earth, gradually blocking out light from the volcanic moon.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

If plumes exist, and we can directly sample what's coming from the interior of Europa, then we can more easily get at whether Europa has the ingredients for life.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.

(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)

Water is currently driving NASA's exploration into the outer solar system, where ocean worlds — like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus — hold the potential to support life.

(Possible Subsurface Lake near Martian South Pole, NASA)

One certainty is that Europa is bathed in radiation created by Jupiter's powerful magnetic field.

(NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt, NASA)

The possibility of undersea hydrothermal activity inside icy moons such as Europa at Jupiter and Enceladus at Saturn feeds interest in them as destinations in the quest to find extraterrestrial life.

(Mars Study Yields Clues to Possible Cradle of Life, NASA)

However, because the planet's host star is much dimmer than the sun, the planet is much colder than Earth — a little colder, in fact, than Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

(Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System, NASA)

From its orbit of Jupiter, Europa Clipper will sail close by the moon in rapid, low-altitude flybys.

(Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes, NASA)

In stark contrast to Io, Europa is covered in ice, which reflects very little sunlight when viewed through infrared wavelengths.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For more than a decade, scientists have wondered about the nature of the dark material that coats long, linear fractures and other relatively young geological features on Europa's surface.

(NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt, NASA)