NASA repairs Juno space probe camera from 600 million kilometers away
Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the probe or vice-versa.
The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023.(photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing by Gerald Eichstädt)