The exploratory space probe Juno has captured an impressive image recently. The spacecraft has managed to take a photo of the shadow on the giant planet of Jupiter that is cast by its moon Ganymede.
NASA reported that a model of the image was also provided for it to be seen cleaner and closer to reality.
"Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument (Figure A). At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno spacecraft was about 44,000 miles (71,000 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, at a latitude of about 55 degrees south, and 15 times closer than Ganymede, which orbits about 666,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) away from Jupiter," NASA said.
JunoCam has captured the image quite close to Jupiter, which caused the shadow of the Ganymede to look especially big.
The gigantic planet has four moons: apart from the Ganymede, it has Europa, Io, and Calisto.
