Experience Ju**'s final approach to Jupiter through the spacecraft's own eyes
 

Experience Ju**'s final approach to Jupiter through the spacecraft's own eyes
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PASADENA, Calif. — Jupiter is getting ready for its closeup.

NASA's Ju** spacecraft has been speeding through the solar system for five years in the hopes of making it into orbit around Jupiter Monday night.*

A new photo and video NASA released just hours before the big event show the basketball court-sized spacecraft closing in on the huge planet.

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Ju**'s newest photo shows Jupiter and its four Galilean moons — Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede — as seen by the spacecraft's Ju**Cam instrument on June 29, when the probe was 3.3 million miles from Jupiter. Read more...


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