Water below the icy moon's surface is a key target for Juno's close flyby.
that release their own water geysers. Alternatively, Juno's navigation cameras will hunt for icy particles drifting back down to Europa's surface, reflecting and scattering light.and then the south pole, means that it will approach Europa from a high inclination, giving the spacecraft views of the polar regions of the moon for the first time. In contrast, previous missions hugged the plane of the moons and focused on their equatorial regions.
"What's happening is, Juno's orbit is now being twisted by Jupiter's gravitational field," Bolton said."We've always crossed the equator, but as we get closer to Jupiter, the point at which we cross the equator is moving inward." Juno crossed Jupiter's equator at the distance of Ganymede — 665,000 miles, 1.07 million km) in the summer of 2021. Now, the spacecraft is crossing Jupiter's equator at the distance of Europa — 383,000 miles .
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