Stunning new image of Jupiter's icy moon Europa

Another day, another stunning image from deep in our solar system.

Reprocessing images from the late 1990s, NASA on Friday released a sumptuous color image of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which the space agency has called a "very likely place ... to look for evidence of life" as we know it on Earth.

A lower-resolution, strongly enhanced color mosaic of the view was released in March 2013. The new image was assembled from pictures snapped by the Galileo spacecraft on its first orbit of the Jovian system, in 1995, and on the 14th orbit, three years later.

The "remastered" view — a combination of images taken through near-infrared, green and violet filters — approximates more closely how Europa would look to the human eye.

The color code: blue or white areas contain relatively pure water ice; reddish, brownish features indicate more concentrated, non-ice components. For a north-pole view, tilt your texting-cricked neck to the right.

NASA says Europa, which Galileo Galilei discovered in 1610, could have all three ingredients needed to create Earth-like life: liquid water, an energy source and organic compounds.

NASA says there is "strong evidence" that a deep, global ocean lies beneath Europa's frozen surface.

So, when do we go?

Not until 2022 at the earliest. That's when the European Space Agency (which just dropped the mighty little lander Philae on a comet) is scheduled to launch its unmanned Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (yes, JUICE).

NASA said in March that it was planning a robo-mission for the mid-2020s.