The first images are now coming through to NASA from this week’s flyby of Jupiter by its Juno spacecraft—and they include an image of Europa, one of the giant planet's biggest moons.
Juno is in a highly elliptical polar orbit, so instead of constantly returning images it only takes photos when it’s very close to the giant planet. It spins to keep itself stable as it makes its long oval-shaped orbits.
Juno is up there to study Jupiter’s composition, magnetic field, magnetosphere, to measure water present within its atmosphere, and its winds, among other things. 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.... [+]Kevin M. Gill's processed image of Jupiter as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 37th perivove.
That added 42 extra orbits to its mission, which will allow it to operate through September 2025. This second phase of the mission will be particularly exciting because it will include:The first exploration of the faint rings encircling Jupiter. According to NASA, Juno will also continue expand on discoveries it’s already made about Jupiter’s interior structure, internal magnetic field, atmosphere , and magnetosphere.Juno was also able to get a relatively close-up image of Jupiter’s moon Europa, which was recently
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