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This view of Cilix impact crater on Europa was created in 2013 using 3-D stereo images.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cynthia Phillips Downloads View All Europa Resources May 29, 2025
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This view of Cilix impact crater on Europa was created in 2013 using 3-D stereo images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, combined with advanced image processing techniques. The crater has a diameter of about 11 miles (18 kilometers).
This image, which combines a 3-D Digital Elevation Model, or DEM, with original imagery, shows that the crater rim rises steeply for about 980 feet (300 meters) above a flat crater floor that is interrupted by a central peak which has a height of about 660 feet (200 meters). Such central peaks are common on other bodies in the solar system. Young, well-preserved craters like Cilix are rare on Europa’s surface, where ongoing geologic activity is thought to disrupt most surface features over timescales of tens of millions of years.
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