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.