NASA's Juno to make closest visit to Jupiter's Ganymede in 20 yrs

NASA's Juno spacecraft will come within 1,038 kilometres of Jupiter's moon Ganymede's surface on June 7. This would be the closest a spacecraft has come to it since Galileo spacecraft in May 2000. From JunoCam's viewpoint, Ganymede will go from being a point of light to a viewable disk then back to a point of light in about 25 minutes.

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