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Juice image taken by Juice monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) at 23:25 CEST. The image shows some sign of real color differences in the large-scale features on the lunar surface.
Image credit: ESA/Juice/JMC; acknowledgement: Simeon Schmauß & Mark McCaughrean (image processing)

Part 1 of the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby, the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) zipped by the Moon.

Juice took these images with its onboard monitoring cameras just before midnight CEST on August 19, around its closest approach to the Moon.

View of our cratered Moon as captured by the Juice monitoring camera 1 (JMC1) soon after Juice made its closest approach to the Moon. On the left side of the image we see parts of the spacecraft itself.
Image credit: ESA/Juice/JMC; acknowledgement: Simeon Schmauß & Mark McCaughrean (image processing)

This successful flyby of the Moon slightly redirected Juice’s path through space to put it on course for a flyby of Earth on August 20, 2024.

Rewatch the livestream of Juice’s first Moon images, including Q&A with the team at:

Image credit: ESA TV