The moon of Jupiter is still covered in ice.
Early on Thursday, Juno sped by at more than 30,000 miles per hour, making it the fastest spaceship in the world.
Four images taken during the flyby of the moon were returned to Earth less than 12 hours later.
A scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said that they are stunning.
NASA highlighted an image of a region near the moon's equator called Annwn Regio in its news release.
The alien landscape is similar to what was seen by previous NASA visitors, including the two spaceships that flew through the Jovian system in 1979.
The ocean could be hidden under the ice and created through the stresses of rising and falling tides. There were other data that convinced planetary scientists that an ocean flows on the island.
It is possible to find life in the solar system if you look for liquid water.
The story isn't changed by the flyby.
Dr. Hansen- Koharcheck wouldn't say if there was a new feature. The new images give a better view of some parts of the moon.
You can link up different ridges and fault lines to get a more global or regional picture.
She said that she couldn't say that the one thing was amazing. There are many features that make her want to look at them. That type of data is what it is. There is a lot of complexity inEuropa, and these images show that.
The images were on the website. The originals have a brown hue, but the moon is lighter-colored in reality. The camera on the space probe was not intended to be used as a scientific instrument. The doctor said that they didn't try to do the white balancing. It is not intentional.
People all over the world began to download and enhance the images.
Scientists planning a NASA mission to make repeated close flybys of Europa will be helped by the pictures and other data collected by the Juno probe. It will help the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE, a European Space Agency mission that will study the moons of Jupiter.
The solar system's largest planet, Jupiter, was visited by the solar system's smallest planet, Juno, in the summer of 2016 The instruments were used to probe beneath the clouds of Jupiter. The scientists nicknamed them mushballs because they were raining of ammonia-rich baseball- size conglomerations.
When the tasks of the primary mission were completed last year, NASA approved an extended mission for Jupiter that included flybys of three large moons.
The flyby was done in June 2021. Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system and it will be looked at in two years.
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