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NASA Jupiter probe images huge moon Ganymede like never before (photos) – Space.com
The data show that powerful radiation has transformed Ganymede’s polar regions.
These images the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft took on Dec. 26, 2019, provide the first infrared mapping of Ganymede’s northern frontier. Frozen water molecules detected at both poles have no appreciable order to their arrangement and a different infrared signature than ice at the equator. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)
NASA’s Juno Jupiter probe
has captured unprecedented views of the largest moon in the solar system.
During a close flyby of Jupiter on …
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