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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Moon. A portion of the Moon is seen in the left half of the frame. It appears in shades of teal and grey and is covered with many craters. The Sun lights the edge of the Moon, creating dramatic shadows that emphasize the 3D nature of the craters. A portion of the Juice spacecraft is seen in the right edge of the frame. The instruments visible include the long black antenna of the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration and several instruments wrapped in shiny material. Earth shows itself as a dark circle outlined by a light crescent at the top centre of the image, peeking out from behind the spacecraft structure.

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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Moon. A portion of the Moon is seen in the left half of the frame. It appears in shades of teal and grey and is covered with many craters. The Sun lights the edge of the Moon, creating dramatic shadows that emphasize the 3D nature of the craters. A portion of the Juice spacecraft is seen in the right edge of the frame. The instruments visible include the long black antenna of the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration and several instruments wrapped in shiny material. Earth shows itself as a dark circle outlined by a light crescent at the top centre of the image, peeking out from behind the spacecraft structure.
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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 03:47:20 JST Kelly Lepo

On Monday and Tuesday, ESA's Juice mission performed a lunar-Earth flyby, a double gravity assist maneuver to send it to Venus on its way to Jupiter, its final destination.
The onboard monitoring cameras sent back some really cool images.
And there is more to come! All ten of Juice’s scientific instruments switched on during the Moon flyby, and eight switched on during the Earth flyby. Expect images and spectra from the science instruments in the next few weeks.
More: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Juice/Juice_rerouted_to_Venus_in_world_s_first_lunar-Earth_flyby

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