Juice snaps Moon en route to Earth
During the first step of humankind’s Guide to Juice’s monitoring cameras
More images from Juice's monitoring cameras in ESA's Planetary Science Archive
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*Additional technical information: ‘front’ means +X side of the spacecraft (the opposite side, -X hosts the high gain antenna). JMC1 looks towards the +Y/+Z direction.
The Juice monitoring cameras were developed by Switzerland-based company Micro-Cameras & Space Exploration.
[Image description: View of our cratered Moon at the top of the image, as captured by the Juice monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) at 23:25 CEST on 19 August 2024, soon after Juice made its closest approach to the Moon. On the left side of the image we see parts of the spacecraft itself.]
