Planet Jupiter: Close Flyby Views | NASA's Juno Mission

Planet Jupiter: Close Flyby Views | NASA's Juno Mission

Jupiter & Galilean Moons (PJ57-21/12): From the left, the visible moons are Ganymede, Io, Europa, and Callisto. 

Jupiter - PJ57-57

Jupiter - PJ57-57

Jupiter - PJ57-60

Jupiter - PJ57-50

Jupiter - PJ57-28: Of the two moons visible, Europa is the the left and Callisto is to the right (just off the left limb of Jupiter).

Since it arrived at Jupiter in 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been probing beneath the dense, forbidding clouds encircling the giant planet—the first orbiter to peer so closely. It seeks answers to questions about the origin and evolution of Jupiter, our solar system, and giant planets across the cosmos.

The Juno orbiter has now performed over 57 flybys of Jupiter and documented close encounters with three of the gas giant’s four largest moons.

More About the Mission

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott J. Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.

Learn more about NASA's Juno mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/

Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

Image Processing: Kevin Gill

Image Release Dates: Jan. 5-Jan. 8, 2024

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