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Jun 09, 2021 50 secs

The photographs were taken using the Jupiter orbiter’s JunoCam imager and its Stellar Reference Unit star camera.

The Stellar Reference Unit navigation camera produced a black-and-white image of Ganymede's dark side as it glowed in light scattered from Jupiter.

The Juno Mission is a part of the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center New Frontiers Program and is operated for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C

This image of the dark side of Ganymede was obtained by Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit navigation camera during its June 7, 2021, flyby of the moon

In January, NASA announced the Juno mission would be extended, investigating the solar system's largest planet – the full Jovian system-through September 2025. 

"Since its first orbit in 2016, Juno has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of this massive gas giant," Bolton said, "With the extended mission, we will answer fundamental questions that arose during Juno’s prime mission while reaching beyond the planet to explore Jupiter’s ring system and Galilean satellites."

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