Juno Flies Past the Moon Ganymede and Jupiter, With Music by Vangelis

Video showing Juno's flybys of Ganymede and Jupiter
Video showing Juno's flybys of Ganymede and Jupiter
July 14, 2021
CreditNASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
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On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby.

For both worlds, JunoCam images were orthographically projected onto a digital sphere, and synthetic frames were added between actual images to make the motion appear smoother and provide views of approach and departure for both Ganymede and Jupiter.