The orbiter has performed 56 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons. NASA’s Juno spacecraft will on Saturday, Dec. 30, make the closest flyby of Jupiter’s moon Io that any spacecraft has made in over 20 years. Coming within roughly 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the […]
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Juno, Europa, Goddard Space Flight Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Jupiter, Jupiter Moons, Rings of Jupiter, The Solar System
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December 27, 2023
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