NASA’s Juno Captures Closest Images of Jupiter Moon Europa
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:57 pm
NASA’s Juno Captures Closest Images of Jupiter Moon Europa
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NASA’s spacecraft, Juno, captured the closest images ever taken in the last two decades of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, on Thursday, September 29th, giving us our first really good look at this ice-encrusted ocean world.
The images revealed surface features in a region near the moon’s equator called Annwn Regio during the solar-powered spacecraft’s closest approach at a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).
Juno’s recent capture is the third close pass ever in history of Europa at below 310 miles (500 kilometers) altitude. It is also the closest look any spacecraft has provided of Europa since January 3, 2000, when NASA’s Galileo came within 218 miles (351 kilometers) of the surface.
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NASA’s spacecraft, Juno, captured the closest images ever taken in the last two decades of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, on Thursday, September 29th, giving us our first really good look at this ice-encrusted ocean world.
The images revealed surface features in a region near the moon’s equator called Annwn Regio during the solar-powered spacecraft’s closest approach at a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).
Juno’s recent capture is the third close pass ever in history of Europa at below 310 miles (500 kilometers) altitude. It is also the closest look any spacecraft has provided of Europa since January 3, 2000, when NASA’s Galileo came within 218 miles (351 kilometers) of the surface.