Besides Juno, which swung past Europa at a distance of 352 km, the only other probe to get close to the moon was NASA’s Galileo—and that was more than two decades ago.

Surface features of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa are revealed in an image obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) during the spacecraft’s Sept. 29, 2022, flyby. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI ...

The moon is considered a good candidate for possibly hosting alien life. It will be the target of NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission , set to launch in 2024. Juno's work is giving scientists a ...

In the close-up image above, taken by the Galileo spacecraft in 1997, you can see Europa's surface crisscrossed with cracks along its icy exterior. Previous missions spied plumes of water vapor ...

That makes Juno’s close pass just a shade farther from Europa than the Galileo spacecraft’s flyby of the moon over 20 years ago, 218 miles from Europa’s surface. A detail of the first image ...

The cracked surface of Europa, newly colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Orion Moon Europa Clipper might be in launch limbo thanks to Hurricane Milton, but NASA is still building hype around the ...

This image of Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during the mission’s close flyby on September 29, 2022.

NASA's Juno spacecraft is about to get super cozy with Jupiter moon Europa. Juno's gearing up for the closest flyby of the moon in decades. The probe will gather data and images during its close ...

Jupiter's Moon Europa Captured By Juno Spacecraft In Close Flyby. Posted ... amazing new imagery of Jupiter's moon Europa. ... in a job interview — and what to do if they're brought up.

NASA is weeks away from sending its Clipper orbiter on a journey to the Jupiter moon Europa, ... no vehicles have gotten as up-close a look as the Clipper should get.

One of those days will bring it close to Europa, among 95 known moons at Jupiter and close to our own moon in size. The spacecraft will skim as low as 16 miles (25 kilometers) above Europa ...

Before the agency sends Europa Clipper to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon, it's showing off a newly colorized close-up of Europa's icy surface.