NASA Spacecraft Is About To Fly By The Largest Moon In The Solar System
NASA's Juno spacecraft will travel to 645 miles above the surface of the solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, on Monday.
by Joe Palca
Jun 07, 2021
2 minutes
Jupiter's moon Ganymede will have a visitor from Earth on Monday. At 1:35 p.m. ET, NASA's Juno spacecraft will zoom by, just 645 miles above the surface of the solar system's largest moon.
It's the first time a probe has made a close-up visit to Ganymede since the Galileo mission flew by in 2000.
Ganymede is an icy moon, and
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