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NASA’s Juno to make the closest visit to Jupiter’s biggest moon Ganymede in 20 years – Space.com
Ganymede
, get ready for your close-up.
No probe has gotten a good view of Jupiter’s largest moon since 2000, when NASA’s Galileo spacecraft
swung past the strange world, which is the largest moon in the whole solar system. But on Monday (June 7), at 1:35 p.m. EDT (1735 GMT), NASA’s Juno
spacecraft will skim just 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) above Ganymede’s surface, gathering a host of observations as it does so.
“Juno carries a suite of sensitive instruments capable of seeing Ganymede in ways…
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