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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 Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of the icy moon. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. The solar-powered Juno...

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.

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