Saturday, February 27, 2021

This is good news from NASA (though not exactly new)

 

Just a couple of days ago, about the time that the Perseverance rover landed on Mars, I found out that NASA had extended the Juno mission in the Jupiter system.  Now, after having taken a look at big ol' Jupe, it has a chance to visit the Galilean moons (except Callisto).  Even though I just learned this news, apparently they announced it in mid-January.  So, well, what goes around comes around.

(That's an orbit joke.)

The extended mission is described here:  

NASA’s Juno Mission Expands Into the Future


To celebrate, NASA released more volunteer-processed images like this. (The volunteers are getting pretty good at this.)



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