See the First Images NASA’s Juno Took As It Sailed by Ganymede

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[BenLurkin]

Sailed?

[ifinnegan]

What verb is best?

[Fai Mao]

Glided, zoomed, coasted

The space craft is, at this point, not using powered flight.

[BenLurkin]

I don’t know.

[doorgunner69]

Anyone living there would soon learn to listen to the yell of “incoming”

[Az Joe]

Cruised past...
Darted
Swept
Sped
Drifted
Pushed
Moved
Locomoted

[dragnet2]

This solar system was really bombarded in the past. Fragments making 40++ mile wide craters on most of the planets, moons etc. Craters in craters on the lunar surface. Even this planet has taken a hell of a beating.

[Revel]

I prefer a simple color shot for observation purposes.

[knarf]

ROUND

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Isn’t it amazing? Good thing that most of that detritus was collected and swept up before people got here.

[bluejean]

Looks like trail bikers like it a lot.

[dragnet2]

I'm trying to imagine being about 70 miles away when this impact occurred.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

At 70 miles, I think you would have been incinerated. At 700 miles, you probably would have felt a lot of heat and maybe the shock wave.

[FatherofFive]

Sailed?

One definition is “ To move along or progress smoothly or effortlessly”. You often hear the phrase “The ball sailed out of bounds”. I think that is a good use of the word.

[bitt]

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[bitt]

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/pia24681-1041.jpg?itok=etdJhoZS

if you click the image to enlarge, you can see the corn fields and subdivisions like Levittown.

[dragnet2]

I’m glad I wasn’t there. ☺

One of the largest craters in our Solar System is on the Moon weighing in at about 1,500 miles in diameter and 8 miles deep.

According to recent reports it may contain an enormous chunk of metal allegedly larger than Hawaii’s Big Island.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#6. Let’s add the cowboy term “motsied” pass Ganymede. Not in a hurry. This moon isn’t going anywhere soon.

[blueplum]

the ‘dark’ side looks almost as bright as the sun-side. And there’s an ocean under a 500-mile deep ice pack? I wonder what sound the moon makes. (i love space stuff)

[sageburn]

I used to be in my very early youth an enthusiastic amateur astronomer. Once I understood the vastness of space I was very depressed and so very much disappointed. I realized then that I would never be able to actually go and see these distant places. I have hope, it ain’t going to happen in my lifetime, that one day travel to these distant places can be realized. I have faith humanity isn’t going to be stuck on our blue-green orb forever.