{"id":299465,"date":"2021-07-14T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ride-with-juno-as-it-flies-past-the-solar-systems-biggest-moon-and-jupiter\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T21:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T18:44:22","slug":"ride-with-juno-as-it-flies-past-the-solar-systems-biggest-moon-and-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ride-with-juno-as-it-flies-past-the-solar-systems-biggest-moon-and-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ride with Juno as it flies past the solar system’s biggest moon and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ride with Juno as it flies past the solar system’s biggest moon and Jupiter<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter, racing over its roiling atmosphere from pole to pole in less than three hours. Using the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager, the mission team has put together an animation to provide a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby.<\/p>\n


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“The animation shows just how beautiful deep space exploration can be,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator for Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “The animation is a way for people to imagine exploring our solar system firsthand by seeing what it would be like to be orbiting Jupiter and flying past one of its icy moons. Today, as we app<\/a>roach the exciting prospect of humans being able to visit space in orbit around Earth, this propels our imagination decades into the future, when humans will be visiting the alien worlds in our solar system.”<\/p>\n

The 3:30-minute-long animation begins with Juno approaching Ganymede, passing within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of the surface at a relative velocity of 41,600 mph (67,000 kph). The imagery shows several of the moon’s dark and light regions (darker regions are believed to result from ice sublimating into the surrounding vacuum, leaving behind darkened residue) as well as the crater Tros, which is among the largest and brightest crater scars on Ganymede.<\/p>\n


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