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In Photos: Jaw-Dropping New Images Of Jupiter And Its ‘Wet Moon’ Europa Taken This Week By NASA’s Juno Spacecraft - Forbes
Oct 21, 2021 52 secs
NASA’s Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011 and began to orbit Jupiter on July 4, 2013.

The first images are now coming through to NASA from this week’s flyby of Jupiter by its Juno spacecraft.

Gill's processed image of Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 37th ...

Andrea Luck's processed image of Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 37th perivove.

So far it’s sent back to NASA over three terabits of science data, but after a flyby of Jupiter’s biggest moon, Ganymede the $1.1 billion spacecraft this year begun a new second phase of its mission after completing its core five-year survey of the giant planet.

Gill's processed image of Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 37th ...

However, on this 37th perijove Juno was also able to get a relatively close-up image of Jupiter’s moon Europa, which was recently revealed by NASA to have water vapor in its atmosphere.

Andrea Luck's processed image of Europa as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 37th perivove.

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