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PHOTO CAPTION                                     P-47906
                                                  October 18, 1996

False color has been used here to enhance the visibility of certain features
in this composite of three images of the Minos Linea region on Jupiter's
moon Europa taken on 28 June 1996 Universal Time by the solid state imaging
camera on NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Triple bands, lineae and mottled
terrains appear in brown and reddish hues, indicating the presence of
contaminants in the ice. The icy plains, shown here in bluish hues,
subdivide into units with different albedos at infrared wavelengths probably
because of differences in the grain size of the ice. The composite was
produced using images with effective wavelengths at 989, 757, and 559
nanometers. The spatial resolution in the individual images ranges from 1.6
to 3.3 kilometers (1 to 2 miles) per pixel. The area covered, centered at
45N, 221 W, is about 1,260 km (about 780 miles) across.

Launched in October 1989, Galileo entered orbit around Jupiter on December
7, 1995. The spacecraft's mission is to conduct detailed studies of the
giant planet, its largest moons and the Jovian magnetic environment. The Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of
Space Science, Washington, DC.