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NASA spacecraft captures astonishing views of icy Jupiter moon Ganymede - CNET

NASA spacecraft captures astonishing views of icy Jupiter moon Ganymede - CNET

NASA spacecraft captures astonishing views of icy Jupiter moon Ganymede - CNET
Jun 09, 2021 28 secs

The NASA Juno spacecraft JunoCam captured this stunner of a Ganymede portrait on June 7, 2021.

In January, NASA extended the mission for its Jupiter-studying Juno spacecraft, giving it a new frontier to explore: the gas giant's wild moons.

"This is the closest any spacecraft has come to this mammoth moon in a generation," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton said in a NASA statement on Tuesday.

NASA said Juno is studying the moon's "composition, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and ice shell while also providing measurements of the radiation environment that will benefit future missions to the Jovian system."

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