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NASA’s Juno to make closest flyby to Jupiter’s largest moon – ZME Science
It will provide information about the Moon’s composition, ice shell, ionosphere and magnetosphere.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly at only 1,038 kilometers (645 miles) from the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, tomorrow, June 7. It will be the closest-known flyby since the Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach more than a decade ago and its expected to yield valuable insights into Jupiters moon.
Left to right: The mosaic and geologic maps of Jupiters moon Ganymede were assembled incorporating the best available imagery from NASAs Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft and NASAs…
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