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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Moon. A portion of the Moon is seen in the top half of the frame. It appears in shades of grey and pink with many craters, which are concentrated on its right half. The Sun lights the face of the moon, making the craters appear somewhat flat. Portions of the Juice spacecraft are seen in the left half of the frame, mostly in shadow. A series of antennas cross the image, including one long black antenna that crosses the disk of the Moon.

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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Moon. A portion of the Moon is seen in the top half of the frame. It appears in shades of grey and pink with many craters, which are concentrated on its right half. The Sun lights the face of the moon, making the craters appear somewhat flat. Portions of the Juice spacecraft are seen in the left half of the frame, mostly in shadow. A series of antennas cross the image, including one long black antenna that crosses the disk of the Moon.
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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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