NASA’s Juno spacecraft will have successive flies and will be familiar with Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. According to Space.com, Galimo has not had a better view of Ganymede since the spacecraft flew in 2000. Ganymede is the only moon with a magnetic field greater than Mercury’s. Juno is located about 1,038 km (645 mi) from the solar system’s largest moon.
Left to Right: A mosaic and geographic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has been added, including the best available images from NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Attribution: USGS Astronomy Center / Wheaton / NASA / JPL-Caltech
According to a blog post from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Juno will establish close contact with Ganymede on June 7 at 11:05 a.m. EDT (13:35 EDT).
It also states that with the help of the Juno spacecraft, researchers will be able to obtain information about the ionosphere of Jupiter’s moons, ice shells, structure and magnetosphere.
Juno will have special equipment that will allow researchers to see Ganymede in a way that wasn’t possible before, said Scott Bolton, Juno’s principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. By flying close to Jupiter’s moons, Bolton said, they could assist next-generation missions, including ESA’s Jupiter IC Moons Explorer. [जूइस] Europa Clipper, NASA.
Navigation cameras on Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) will not only help the spacecraft track its path, but will also be used to collect images to explore Ganymede’s high-energy radioactive atmosphere.
Three hours before the Juno spacecraft made its closest approach, its instruments began collecting data.
Ultraviolet spectroscopy (UVS), microwave radiometer (MWR), and infrared Jovian atmosphere diagrams (Giram) were used to obtain details of the water ice crust. Secret wireless experiments will be carried out with the help of signals received from Juno’s X-band and Ka-band radio waves. This experiment will study Ganymede’s ionosphere.
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