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Natural Color Image of Europa
Credit: NASA
Natural color image of Jupiter's moon Europa.
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Europa's Frigid Surface Could Be a Hot Spot of Chemistry
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears as a thick crescent in this enhanced-color image from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. The view combines images taken in violet, green and near-infrared filters in 1998 and 1995. The colors have been stretched to show the subtle differences in materials that cover the icy surface of Europa.
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Europa Rising
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The icy moon Europa rising above Jupiter’s cloud tops. The picture was one of a handful of the Jupiter system that New Horizons took primarily for artistic, rather than scientific, value.
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Io and Europa Meet Again
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
This beautiful image of the crescents of volcanic Io and more sedate Europa is a combination of two New Horizons images taken March 2, 2007. Io steals the show with its beautiful display of volcanic activity.
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Rare Arctic Springs Hold Clues to Jupiter's Moon Europa
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/University of Colorado
The surface of Europa. Sulfur-rich materials there are concentrated along geological features and may reflect the composition of the subsurface ocean. Image from the Solid-State Imaging instrument onboard Galileo.
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Europa's Hidden Ocean?
Credit: NASA
Europa, a moon among many circling Jupiter, appears to have a putative ocean hidden under its frozen surface crust. Tougher cameras, however, will be necessary to scope out the water regions beneath its shell of ice.
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Jupiter, Europa & Callisto
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this image on Dec. 7, 2000, just as two of Jupiter's four major moons, Europa and Callisto, were nearly perfectly aligned with each other and the center of the planet.
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Artist's interpretation of NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter, part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission
Credit: NASA/ESA
This artist’s concept shows NASA's Jupiter Europa Orbiter, which would carry a complement of 11 instruments to explore Europa and the Jupiter system. The spacecraft is part of the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter System Mission.
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Time for Europa
The Europa Explorer would use gravity-assist flybys of both Venus and Earth, and thus would be able to deliver about three times the payload mass to the Jupiter system of previous concepts like Europa Orbiter.
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Galileo's Europa
Credit: NASA/Ted Stryk
Europa, as viewed from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Visible are plains of bright ice, cracks that run to the horizon, and dark patches that likely contain both ice and dirt.
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Europa's Buried Lakes
Credit: Britney Schmidt/Dead Pixel VFX/Univ. of Texas at Austin
Europa's "Great Lake." Scientists speculate many more exist throughout the shallow regions of the moon's icy shell.
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Europa's Thera Macula
Credit: Paul Schenk/NASA
Thera Macula (false color) is a region of likely active chaos production above a large liquid water lake in the icy shell of Europa. Color indicates topographic heights relative to background terrain. Purples and reds indicate the highest terrain.
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