We can use the colors of Europa’s surface to tell us about the chemical compounds that make up the surface — and subsurface — of the jovian moon. Even before the first spacecraft made a ...

Read the Full Story. See stunning images of Europa from NASA spacecraft here. Natural color image of Jupiter's moon Europa. Scientists are eager to learn if Europa's huge subsurface ocean harbors ...

Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

Two of the images show the same portion of Europa's surface, comparing different processing approaches; one with minimal treatment, the other with enhanced color contrast that makes the surface ...

On its recent swing by Mars, NASA's Europa Clipper took the opportunity to capture infrared images of the Red Planet. The data will help mission scientists calibrate the spacecraft's thermal imaging ...

Salty water may escape to the surface along fractures, leaving telltale reddish colors on Europa's ground. And irregular chunks of ice have likely been created by relatively recent surface movement.

Images collected during the Galileo mission show Europa’s approximate natural colors (left) and differences in its predominantly water-ice crust thanks to enhanced colors (right). Dark brown ...

False-color image of Europa’s trailing northern hemisphere, where subduction zones are hypothesized to exist. (Caption and credit, NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) When Prockter and Kattenhorn ...

False color mosaic of Europa taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute) “Europa may be one of the few accessible places where life could originate and persist ...

So, the best ever image of Europa’s surface packs some 20 feet into each pixel — and it’s not even in color. Europa’s fractured crust shows clear signs of a young surface — one that’s perhaps still ...