What is "europa"

Europa may refer to:

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Europa (Jupiter II), is the sixth-closest moon of Jupiter, and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites, and the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and was named after Europa, mother of King Minos of Crete, who became one of Zeus' lovers. In addition to Earth-bound telescope observations, Europa has been examined by a succession of space probe flybys, the first occurring in the early 1970s.

Slightly smaller than the Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron–nickel core. It has a tenuous atmosphere composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is striated by cracks and streaks, whereas craters are relatively rare. It has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the Solar System. The apparent youth and smoothness of the surface have led to the hypothesis that a water ocean exists beneath it, which could conceivably serve as an abode for extraterrestrial life. This hypothesis proposes that heat from tidal flexing causes the ocean to remain liquid and drives geological activity similar to plate tectonics. On 8 September 2014, NASA reported finding evidence supporting earlier suggestions of plate tectonics in Europa's thick ice shell—the first sign of such geological activity on a world other than Earth. On 12 May 2015, scientists announced that sea salt from a subsurface ocean may be coating some geological features on Europa, suggesting that the ocean is interacting with the seafloor. This may be important in determining if Europa could be habitable for life.

In December 2013, NASA reported the detection of " clay-like minerals" (specifically, phyllosilicates) on the icy crust of Europa. In addition, the Hubble Space Telescope detected water vapor plumes similar to those observed on Saturn's moon Enceladus, which are thought to be caused by erupting cryogeysers.

The Galileo mission, launched in 1989, provided the bulk of current data on Europa. No spacecraft has yet landed on Europa, but its intriguing characteristics have led to several ambitious exploration proposals. The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) is a mission to Ganymede that is due to launch in 2022, but it will conduct two flybys of Europa. NASA's planned Europa Multiple-Flyby Mission will be launched in the mid-2020s.

In Greek mythology Europa (; Eurṓpē) was the mother of King Minos of Crete, a woman with Phoenician origin of high lineage, and for whom the continent Europe was named. The story of her abduction by Zeus in the form of a white bull was a Cretan story; as Kerényi points out "most of the love-stories concerning Zeus originated from more ancient tales describing his marriages with goddesses. This can especially be said of the story of Europa".

Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century B.C. Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. The earliest vase-painting securely identifiable as Europa, dates from mid-7th century B.C.

The Europa rocket was an early expendable launch system of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO), which was the precursor to the European Space Agency and its Ariane family of launchers. Europa was built to develop space access technology and put European-wide telecommunication and meteorological satellites in orbit. The rocket primarily consisted of Blue Streak, Coralie, and Astris rocket stages.

Europa is Covenant's third full-length album. It was released on May 26, 1998, by 21st Circuitry. Tracks such as Leviathan and Go Film remain popular favourites and are played often by the band. Both were recorded live on 2007's In Transit live album. Go Film was also released on the "Euro EP" along with Tension.

Europa is a German record label, originally owned by Miller International Records Company (Germany). It has since belonged to the MCA Inc. and Bertelsmann Music Group, and is now owned by Sony Corporation of America. It was once well known for its very successful radio plays for children and young people. The founder of Europa, American ex-pat David L. Miller, is best known outside of Germany for creating 101 Strings.

"Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" is an instrumental from the Santana album Amigos, written by Carlos Santana and Tom Coster. It is one of Santana's most popular compositions and it reached the top in the Spanish Singles Chart in July 1976.

The 16-bar chord progression follows the Circle of Fifths, similar to the jazz standard "Autumn Leaves." Every other verse ends with a Picardy cadence.

Europa is a station of the Seville Metro on line 1 in the municipality of Dos Hermanas, Seville. It is located in the instesection of Montequinto and Europa avenues, in the neighborhood of Montequinto. Europa is an underground type station situated between Montequinto and Olivar de Quintos on the same line. It was opened on November 23, 2009.

Europa is a series of board wargames planned to cover combat over the entire European Theater of World War II at a scale that represents units from divisions down to battalions and game turns that represent two weeks of time. The series was launched in 1973, and is still in production as of 2013, with over a dozen titles published and several more still in production or planning. Most of the titles qualify as "monster games", a subgenre of wargames featuring extensive orders of battle, a complex ruleset, and usually a large game-map area with a detailed representation of the terrain they cover.

Europa (known as Zentropa in North America) is a 1991 Danish art drama film directed by Lars von Trier. It is von Trier's third theatrical feature film and the final film in his Europa trilogy following The Element of Crime (1984) and Epidemic (1987).

The film features an international cast, including the French-American Jean-Marc Barr, Germans Barbara Sukowa and Udo Kier, expatriate American Eddie Constantine, and the Swedes Max von Sydow and Ernst-Hugo Järegård.

Europa was influenced by Franz Kafka's Amerika, and the title was chosen "as an echo" of that novel.

Europa is a stream of consciousness novel by Tim Parks, first published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in that year, losing out to Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things.

Jerry Marlow is a neurotic obsessive whose first-person narration describes a coach trip he and several colleagues take to Strasbourg in order to petition the European Parliament for improved working conditions for foreign university teachers working in Italy. While observing the idiosyncrasies of his colleagues, Marlow constantly revisits personal anxieties about relationships with his ex-lover, his wife, and his daughter. In a surprising tragicomic ending, Marlow realises both success and failure, all somehow entwined and impossible to separate.

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Europa was a New Zealand-owned oil company that was operated by the Todd family in New Zealand, in competition with overseas firms such as Texaco (now Caltex in NZ), Plume (now Mobil), Shell (now Z Energy) and Atlantic (now Mobil).

Starting in Dunedin (where the Todd family was based), in 1931 Charles Todd decided to import his own petrol. From 1933 the Europa brand of cheap imported petrol from the Soviet Union was sold through a chain of service stations across the country, in association with the New Zealand Farmer's Union and various regional Automobile Associations. Because of price undercutting by the overseas firms, the government introduced regulation of petrol prices from 1933.

In the early sixties the company was fined a large sum in a Transfer pricing scandal.

In 1972 British Petroleum NZ acquired a 60% interest in the company.

During this time, the company produced what was an award-winning television advert that featured American rock legend Stevie Ray Vaughan and New Zealand Blues legend Midge Marsden as part of the "Travellin' On" television adverts. The television adverts were shot mainly around the Central North Island of New Zealand during 1988.

This would be the last major television advert used until 1989 when the Europa brand was replaced with the BP shield.

Europa (sometimes capitalised EUROPA) is the official web portal of the European Union (EU). It gives basic information on how the EU works, the latest EU news and events, as well as links to websites of institutions, EU agencies, representations in EU member countries and diplomatic missions of the European Union around the world.

Europa.eu is the common domain of the EU institutions.

The European institutions' websites use a common second level domain .europa.eu. This means that all agencies and institutions have their respective name (or initials) in addition to the subdomain europa.eu as a standard web address. For example, the address of the Institute for Security Studies is iss.europa.eu.

EUROPA was first published in February 1995 at the G7 ministerial meeting on information society in Brussels. Originally designed for that specific event, EUROPA expanded rapidly and the European Commission decided to develop it into an information resource for everyone, specialising in all matters covered by the EU Treaties and the work of the European institutions.

Europa was a Roman province within the Diocese of Thrace.

Europa is a station of the Brescia Metro, in the city of Brescia in northern Italy. The station is located on the west side of Viale Europa at Via Branze, near the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering of the University of Brescia.

Europa is an Italian daily newspaper published in Italy.

Europa is the fourth studio album from English singer-songwriter Holly Johnson, released in 2014.

Europa, also known as Résidence Palace, is a complex of buildings between the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat and the Chaussée d'Etterbeek/Etterbeeksesteenweg in the European Quarter of Brussels, the capital city of Belgium. It is formed of three buildings, a press centre and a building currently being renovated (estimated completion: 2016) for use by the European Council, mainly, and even also (for some occasions) by the Council of the European Union as a summit building. To the west lies the main Council building, Justus Lipsius and across the road lie the Berlaymont and Charlemagne buildings of the European Commission.

Europa is Canadian flutist ( flautist) and composer Ron Korb's 16th solo album, recorded in Glenn Gould Studio ( Canadian Broadcasting Centre), Canterbury Music, and Kuhl Music, Toronto, Canada. The production was accomplished in the end of 2012 and the album's official release in 2013 by Humble Dragon Entertainment. The CD features the artist's inspiration in traveling Europa and visiting birthplaces of classical composers, such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The track St. Johann won awards of excellence in composition and awards of merit in acoustic instrument solo performance of Global Music Awards. The album also won best album and best album art/graphic (by Jade Yeh) of Global Music Awards. The track Beckett's Whisper was on the instrumental finalist in International Acoustic Music Awards.

The europa was a token coinage created in 1928 by Joseph Archer, a politician and industrialist from the Nièvre region of France. The currency was promoted by Philibert Besson, the Elected Deputy for the Haute-Loire who, along with Archer, is considered an important figure in the early European federalist movement. The coins were minted in the name of a "Federated States of Europe" (États Fédérés d'Europe). The currency never circulated except unofficially between federalists of the Nièvre region. Two denominations were produced, both depicting Louis Pasteur: one worth 1 europa and one worth 1/10 of a europa.