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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.

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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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