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A huge asteroid crash permanently altered Jupiter's biggest moon Ganymede
Although both Voyager spacecraft as well as the Galileo probe took images of Ganymede in the late 1900s, many areas of the ...
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JANUS camera system
The camera system's main task is to record the above-mentioned moons in medium to high resolution, and in the case of Ganymede even in a very high resolution of only a few metres per pixel. The ...
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The GALA altimeter
The GAnymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) for ESA's JUICE mission to Jupiter consists of two electronics units and an optical component containing the laser and the telescope for the receiver. When ...
NASA's Psyche Spacecraft Photographs Mars And Jupiter Lining Up In Space
In late January this year, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft turned its cameras to the sky and captured some incredible images. The twin cameras onboard, part of the spacecraft’s imaging system, photographed ...