The planet Jupiter is still in the attention of scientists from all over the world, and today we have the opportunity to see in an amazing video that shows us something that until now has not been presented to mankind. More precisely, those from NASA made an impressive video with the moon Ganymede near the planet Jupiter, and this is because the Juno probe that orbited the planet until this year was redirected to the moons that are near it.
The planet Jupiter had its moon Ganymede visited by the Juno spacecraft at the shortest distance a spacecraft has reached there in the last 2 decades, but this is the first video recorded in that area. The animation from NASA shows us how the Juno space probe arrived only 1038 kilometers from the surface of the Ganymede moon near the planet Jupiter, but it is possible that it will get even closer in the future flybys it will make.
Planet Jupiter: AMAZING VIDEO Premiere for Humanity
The planet Jupiter is also present in the NASA animation, the Juno space probe needing only 14 hours to travel the distance of 1.18 million kilometers between the two cosmic bodies. Although the Juno spacecraft accelerates to a speed of approximately 210.000 km/h when it approaches 3400 kilometers away from the planet Jupiter, the speed decreases as it heads towards Juno, resulting in the 14-hour duration required to cover the distance between the planet and the moon that orbits it.
“On June 7, 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter's icy moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter, racing across its roiling atmosphere from pole to pole in less than three hours. Using the spacecraft's JunoCam imager, the mission team put together this animation to provide a "starship captain's" view of each flyby. The animation shows how beautiful deep space exploration can be. The animation is a way for people to imagine exploring our solar system firsthand, seeing what it would be like to orbit Jupiter and fly past one of its icy moons.”
The planet Jupiter has several moons in its orbit, but Ganymede is the largest of them all, and NASA is very interested in monitoring it more closely to see if it can discover life there. Of course, without a satellite it will be almost impossible to make such a discovery about the moon near the planet Jupiter, but the Juno space probe can help to make much more complex observations that will allow the unraveling of many more mysteries about it.
The planet Jupiter will continue to be monitored by the space probe Juno, its mission being extended for several years after the first explorations were successful, so NASA is trying to gather as much information as possible.
