Juno closing in on Jupiter
On Friday the Juno science team released a new image of Jupiter taken by the spacecraft from about 6.8 million miles away.
The reduced resolution image on the right is cropped but with the colors enhanced to bring out the four Galilean moons, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io. The website notes that “Juno is approaching over Jupiter’s north pole, affording the spacecraft a unique perspective on the Jovian system. Previous missions that imaged Jupiter on approach saw the system from much lower latitudes, closer to the planet’s equator.”
Rendezvous and orbital insertion happens on July 4.
On Friday the Juno science team released a new image of Jupiter taken by the spacecraft from about 6.8 million miles away.
The reduced resolution image on the right is cropped but with the colors enhanced to bring out the four Galilean moons, Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io. The website notes that “Juno is approaching over Jupiter’s north pole, affording the spacecraft a unique perspective on the Jovian system. Previous missions that imaged Jupiter on approach saw the system from much lower latitudes, closer to the planet’s equator.”
Rendezvous and orbital insertion happens on July 4.