Here’s our first look at Jupiter’s icy moon from the latest flyby

[Mike Wehner]

NASA's Juno spacecraft has spent much of the past four years gazing at the massive gas giant Jupiter. The orbiter's primary goal is to teach scientists as much about Jupiter as possible, but it's also spent some time observing Jupiter's many moons. Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and also the largest moon in the solar system, so when NASA announced it would be directing Juno to observe Ganymede for the first time, it was a pretty big deal.

Now, we have the very first images that were captured during that flyby, and they're absolutely awesome. The last time any spacecraft got so close to Ganymede was way back in the year 2000 when NASA's Galileo made a relatively close flyby of the giant moon. Juno is an entirely different piece of hardware, and in many ways, it's more advanced, so these new images are our best look at the moon that we've ever gotten.

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