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NASA has shared two images of Jupiters biggest moon, Ganymede, captured by its Juno spacecraft that flew past the giant moon on Monday.

A picture of Ganymedes sunlit side shot using JunoCam NASA said that the sunlit picture released on Tuesday was captured using JunoCam paired with a "green filter," the spacecrafts visible light imager. Once Juno relays home pictures it shot using the Red and Blue filters, NASA said imaging experts will be able to piece together a color portrait of the water-ice-encrusted moon. ...

autoevolution 9 Jun 2021, 9:05 UTC · by On June 7th, NASAs Juno spacecraft zipped closer to Jupiters largest moon than any other has done in more than two decades. Racing at almost 12 miles per second (19 km per second), Juno successfully snapped the first images of Ganymedes icy shell, which show the surface in great detail, with craters, dark and bright landscapes, and long structural features that could be linked to tectonic faults. 3 photos The first two images were taken using the J...

The new pictures could shed light on the remarkable surface features, including craters and tectonic faults.

NASAs Juno spacecraft sailed closer to Jupiters largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than 2 decades, providing spectacular views of the icy moon.

The images sent back by the spacecraft featured Ganymede's surface in astonishing detail.

NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew by Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon, Monday on the first close-up visit to the icy world since 2000. The first images from the flyby show Ganymede’s cratered, icy surface in “remarkable detail,” NASA said. The moon is covered in patches of dark and bright terrain, with long, stripe-like grooves and ridges also visible. Scientists say the linear features could be linked to tectonic faults. This image of Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager during Jun...

NASA's Juno mission took the images as it swung within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of Ganymede's surface during a flyby, the nearest a spacecraft has been to the moon since the Galileo spacecraft made its approach in May 2000.

First photos of Ganymede: The biggest Moon in the Solar system - Ganymede is more than 3,200 miles wide and is bigger than the planet Mercury. It is the only moon large enough to generate its own magnetosphere.

NASAs Juno spacecraft flew closer to Ganymede, one of Jupiters four Galilean moons, than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic glimpses of the icy...