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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Earth. A portion of the Earth is seen in the left half of the frame. The image covers the northern Pacific Ocean, with North America starting to appear on the right (east) side of the Earth image. Many swirling white clouds partially cover the blue ocean. Portions of the Juice spacecraft are seen in the right half of the frame, mostly in shadow. A series of antennas cross the image, including one long black antenna that partially crosses the disk of the Earth.

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Monitoring camera image from the Juice flyby of the Earth. A portion of the Earth is seen in the left half of the frame. The image covers the northern Pacific Ocean, with North America starting to appear on the right (east) side of the Earth image. Many swirling white clouds partially cover the blue ocean. Portions of the Juice spacecraft are seen in the right half of the frame, mostly in shadow. A series of antennas cross the image, including one long black antenna that partially crosses the disk of the Earth.
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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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