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NASA’s Juno All Set to Make Closest Flyby to Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede – Science Times
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly past Ganymede at 1:35 p.m. EDT. The flyby will be the closest-known since Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will approach the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, at a distance of 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) on June 7. At 1:35 p.m. EDT (10:35 a.m. PDT), the solar-powered Juno spacecraft will swing by Ganymede. It will be the closest approach since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft conducted its last close pass on May 20, 2000.
The flyby will provide fascinating new information about the moon’s composition, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and ice shell. In addition, NASA said Juno’s…
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