369-europa-cover-dixon –Digital cover painting for the October, 1999 issue of Scientific American for the story "Europa's Ocean." A view from the Jovian moon Europa depicting a chaotic landscape of fractured water ice blocks, pressure ridges, and rugged hummocky terrain rendered in cool blue and white tones. On the stark horizon, a partially illuminated Jupiter cuts through the darkness of space, showing distinct atmospheric bands and its day-night terminator line. A smaller moon, Io, hangs suspended in front of the gas giant's illuminated hemisphere. © Don Dixon
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