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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.
The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, is pictured with Jupiter in a photo by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 3, 2000. NASA's Juno mission will get close to Ganymede on Monday.

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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