Image credits

The space animation is an artistic interpretation. Planet radii and the approximately 24-metre spacecraft use a consistent kilometre-based scale. Travel time and interplanetary transfer paths are compressed for presentation. Landings, the spacecraft, and fine ground detail are illustrative; this is not an orbital-mechanics or terrain simulation.

Jupiter: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Space Telescope Science Institute. Hubble global map, 2015.

Mars, Earth, Europa: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS. Solar System Simulator surface maps.

Neptune: NASA Visualization Technology Applications and Development (VTAD). Neptune 3D model.

Mission readout

Position and speed describe the illustrative animation, not a real spacecraft. Position is in kilometres from the current world’s centre in the scene’s fixed axes. Speed is relative to that world per animation second; travel is compressed. Pausing freezes the readout.

Surface temperatures and solar day/year lengths are approximate reference values, not live weather or spacecraft temperature. Europa is a moon: its solar day is approximately 85.3 hours and its solar year follows Jupiter (11.86 Earth years).

Sources: NASA planetary fact sheet, NASA Europa Clipper press kit.