Ganymede Up Close #SpaceSaturday

Juno’s JunoCam has snapped pictures of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede from as close as anyone has been in two decades. Here’s more via Astronomy Now:

“This is the closest any spacecraft has come to this mammoth moon in a generation,” said Scott Bolton, the Juno mission’s principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “We are going to take our time before we draw any scientific conclusions, but until then we can simply marvel at this celestial wonder — the only moon in our solar system bigger than the planet Mercury.”

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Source: https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/06/26/ganymede-up-close-spacesaturday/