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Ganymede, The Largest Moon In Our Solar System, Larger Than Mercury And Pluto, Will Experience Its First Closest Encounter In 20 Years, Since Galileo Spacecraft Approached It At ~502 Miles In May 2000. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will, On 06/07/2021, Approach Ganymede At ~645 Miles To Enable Researchers Better Understand Its Composition.
Largest moon in solar system gets first close encounter in 20 years – CNNJupiter’s moon Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, will be the subject of a flyby by NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Monday. Juno will come within 645 miles of Ganymede’s surface to take new images and gather data about the moon’s composition.