The Juno drone belonging to the United States space agency (NASA) sends close sightings Ganymede, one of the four moons that orbit the planet Jupiter and is the largest natural satellite in the Solar System.
The image was taken from a distance of about 1,000 kilometers.
That’s the shortest distance any spacecraft has reached in more than 20 years.
Juno just happened to be passing by; studying Jupiter had become a daily chore. But the European Space Agency will send a special mission soon.
The Jupiter ICy moon Explorer, abbreviated as Juice, will fly past Jupiter’s two satellites, Callisto and Europa, before placing itself in a fixed orbit around Ganymede, expected in 2032.
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