Juno Ganymede flyby (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Juno Ganymede flyby

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Using Hubble Space Telescope datasets and comparing them to the expected values of atmospheric emissions, Southwest Research Institute scientists played a crucial role in this discovery of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede, shown here in a recent image captured by the Juno spacecraft.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

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