NASA's Juno probe sent the first images of Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, that Earth has received in more than 20 years.
Scott Bolton, principal investigator at NASA's Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas said, this is the closest any spacecraft has come to this gigantic moon in a generation. We're going to take our time before drawing scientific conclusions, but until then we're just going to marvel at this, the only moon in our solar system anymore. bigger than Mercury.
The probe flew over the largest moon in the Solar System on June 7 at 1,038 kilometers from Ganymede's surface, the closest to the satellite since the Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate approach on May 20, 2000.
Juno, which has been orbiting the gas giant since 2016, sent two black and white images to Earth, one taken by the JunoCam camera with almost the entire side of the moon and the other by the Stellar Reference Unit camera, which is photographed. the dark side.
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