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NASA recently extended Juno's mission operations to 2025 on June 9, 2021, 9:41 In brief: NASA has shared the first two images captured by its Juno Spacecraft earlier this week as it zipped by Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. The flyby happened on June 7 and is the closest a spacecraft has come to Jupiter’s icy moon in more than two decades. Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio said they are going to take their time before drawing any scientific conclusions from the images, but for now, “we can simply marvel at...

The photos from a historic flyby of Ganymede, the solar system's largest moon, are starting to roll in.

Scientific American Ganymede Looks Glorious in New Images from NASA’s Juno Mission The spacecraft captured the first close-up views of the solar system’s largest moon in more than twenty years June 9, 2021 Print This image of Jupiter’s enormous moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager during the Juno spacecraft's flyby on June 7, 2021. Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI and MSSS Advertisement The photos from a historic flyby of our solar system’s largest moon are starting to roll in. On Monday (June 7), NASA’s Juno probe zoomed within just 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of Jupi...

NASA Juno Spacecraft Shares Detailed Photos Of Ganymede By Alexis Ty on June 09 2021 10:01 PM This image of Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons and the largest moon in our solar system, was taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Juno, NASA's orbiting space probe, has shared its first-ever images of Ganymede in all its icy glory. On Monday, NASA's Juno spacecraft zipped by one of Jupiter's moons and sent two of its images back to Earth. The stunning photos featured the icy moon's surface in great detail, including its craters and terrains, NASA said in its statemen...

Here's What NASA's Probe Saw When It Flew Past Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Gizmodo 1 hr ago Isaac Schultz © Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI One of the first images of Ganymede taken by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during a June 7, 2021, flyby. NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft was able to capture new images of the moon Ganymede during a close flyby on Monday. The natural satellite, the biggest moon in the solar system, has an icy surface that covers an interior of rock and iron. Juno had a little less than half an hour to observe Ganymede at close range; that was enough time...