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Juice spacecraft releases Earth flyby image

Original: After a very successful flyby, here is the main image of Earth we captured with the Juice monitoring cameras. A few othe

The European Space Agency's Juice spacecraft has released its main image of Earth captured by the onboard monitoring cameras following a successful gravity-assist flyby. The team says more images are still being processed and should be published in the coming days, along with a timelapse of the flyby. The mission is en route to Jupiter, using Earth flybys to build momentum for its long journey.

Why now: The successful Earth flyby and release of new imagery from a major space mission is drawing public attention.

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• After a very successful flyby, here is the main image of Earth we captured with the Juice monitoring cameras. A few other images are still in the pipeline and will hopefully make it out in the next couple days. There will also be another timelapse of the flyby :) https://www.… · stim3on@fosstodon.org · 75

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