NASA Spacecraft Has a Close Encounter with Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter since 2016, made a close flyby of the planet’s moon Ganymede at 1:35 p.m. ET on Monday. Its goal: to take stock of the icy orb’s composition and magnetic field, among other measurements. “Juno carries a suite of sensitive instruments capable of seeing Ganymede in ways never before…
