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

A picture of Ganymede's sunlit side shot using JunoCam NASA said that the sunlit picture released on Tuesday was captured using JunoCam paired with a "green filter," the spacecraft's 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. The pictures have a resolution of approximately one kilometer per pixel. Dark side Close-up imag...

autoevolution 9 Jun 2021, 9:05 UTC · by On June 7th, NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped closer to Jupiter's 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 Ganymede's 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 JunoCam visible-light imager onboard the spacecraft and its Stellar Reference Unit star navigatio...

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

NASA's Juno spacecraft sailed closer to Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, than any other spacecraft in more than 2 decades, providing spectacular views of the icy moon.