Tuesday, April 12, 2022

J is for Juno space probe

This year's theme for my A-to-Z Blogging Challenge is Significant Events from 2021 and the first 3 months of 2022.

At the end of today's post is a teaser for tomorrow's K post.  Enjoy! 

On June 7, 2021, the Juno space probe does a flyby of Jupiter's moon Ganymede

Here's the Juno space probe in 2005

Here's how NASA got it close to Jupiter.  The timing required to get the probe exactly where it had to be is incredible!

Here's some photos of Jupiter taken by Juno

March 2019

April 2020

And now!  Here's photos of Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ganymede_infrared_NASA_Juno_JIRAM.jpg
July 20, 2021

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA24681-1041-Ganymede-JupiterMoon-Juno-20210607.jpg
June 8, 2021

More photos on these pages

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/juno

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

https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/juno

Here's a teaser for tomorrow's K post.  Remember, to avoid spoiling the answer for the next blog visitor, please comment on something related to the answer without giving the actual answer.





 

2 comments:

  1. Ladies, gentlemen, and deplorables, step right up. There is history in the making, right here and now.

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    1. Every day we're making history. Sometimes it's the "boring parts", other times not.

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