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Juice spacecraft returns Earth image after successful flyby

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

ESA's Juice spacecraft captured new images of Earth during a successful gravity-assist flyby. The mission team released the main view taken with the spacecraft's monitoring cameras, saying more images are still being processed and should be published in the coming days, along with a timelapse of the flyby. Space enthusiasts are sharing the picture and awaiting the additional views.

Why now: The European space mission just completed a closely watched Earth flyby and is releasing dramatic new images from it.

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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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