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with craters, Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede is captured here with

incredible clarity. Flying within 1,038km of the surface, Juno’s was

the closest approach to the largest moon in our Solar System since

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when an incoming comet broke apart and struck the moon’s

surface. This photo was processed by citizen scientist Kevin McGill.

You can download and make your own versions of Juno’s raw

images at http://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

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and was complicated by a malfunction in Kimbrough’s spacesuit.