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NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Takes First Images of Jupiter Moon Ganymede’s North Pole – SciTechDaily
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede’s icy north pole. On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moo…
These images the JIRAM instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft took on December 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
Infrared images from Juno provide the first glimpse of Ganymede’s icy north pole.
On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupi…
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