e-Pulsar - Dec 00

e-Pulsar Dec 00 - Jan 01

COLOR ARTWORK

Europan Night By Mark Garlick

Here is a view of the giant planet Jupiter from a vantage point somewhere above the surface of Europa. The Sun is right behind you but just below the moon's horizon, so the light in this rendition is coming from Jupiter. Europa's surface is a cracked layer of ice that looks like a jigsaw puzzle. The ice has been fractured because, probably, there is a sub-Europan ocean of liquid water constantly on the move beneath it.

Saturn's Rings By Dave Hardy

Okay, so this isn't an image of Jupiter. This is a purely digital rendering of the Discovery entering Saturn's rings as described in "2001: A Space Odyssey" the novel version. In the movie, of course, we go to Jupiter in a very different Discovery.