Ganymede Picture (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS) New Delhi : NASA s Juno spacecraft passed Jupiter s largest moon called Ganymede on June 7 and not missing the occasion it snapped the celestial body while it was half lit due to sunlight.
Juno snapped Ganymede from a distance of 1,038 kilometers, which is closest by any spacecraft till date.
In the released two pictures, Ganymede s crater can be seen and it appears just like earth s moon in different shade.
NASA explained that the current sunlit picture released have been captured using JunoCam with a green filter, the spacecraft s visible light imager. Once Juno relays home pictures it shot using the Red and Blue filters, NASA said imaging experts will be able to piece together a color portrait of the water-ice-encrusted moon.