Suara.com – Spacecraft Juno belonging to NASA had the opportunity to traverse one of the Jupiter’s moon, at once biggest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, on June 7 at 13:35 EDT or June 8 in Indonesia.
Juno passed just 1,038 km from Ganymede and it was the closest probe to Ganymede since May 2000, carried out by Galileo’s spacecraft at a distance of 1,000 km.
This exploration resulted in Juno’s first photos of Ganymede.
It took some time to receive and process all the data to Earth.
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One of the pictures taken by the JunoCam instrument shows almost the entire side of Ganymede lined with craters.
The crater is thought to hold a large ocean of liquid water beneath its ice shell.
The JunoCam photo, which has a resolution of about 0.6 miles per pixel, was taken using the instrument’s green filter.
The image was sent in black and white, but the mission team was able to create a color portrait after a version shot with JunoCam’s red and blue filters was shipped.
Meanwhile, the second photo is from the Stellar Reference Unit, the black-and-white camera Juno uses for navigation.
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The image, which displays a resolution of 0.37 miles to 0.56 miles per pixel, shows the side of Ganymede opposite the Sun, illuminated by the faint light reflecting off Jupiter.
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