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    NASA’s OSIRIS-REx takes its first image of Jupiter

    February 16, 2017, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2017, when the spacecraft was 75 million miles (120 million kilometers) from Earth and 419 million miles (675 million kilometers) from Jupiter. With an exposure time of two seconds, the image renders Jupiter overexposed, but allows for enhanced detection of stars in the background. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    This image was taken at 3:38 a.m. EST on Feb. 9, 2017, when the spacecraft was 75 million miles from Earth and 419 million miles from Jupiter. With an exposure time of two seconds, the image renders Jupiter overexposed, but allows for enhanced detection of stars in the background. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona

    This magnified, cropped image showing Jupiter and 3 of its moons was taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s MapCam instrument during optical navigation testing for the mission’s Earth-Trojan Asteroid Search. The image shows Jupiter in the center, the moon Callisto to the left and the moons Io and Europa to the right. Ganymede, Jupiter’s fourth moon, is also present in the image, but is not visible as it is crossing in front of the planet.

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