A few days ago, we brought you the news that NASA’s Juno spacecraft was scheduled to perform a flyby of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. This flyby would capture the first close-up images of the large moon in twenty years, and we are pleased to say that the flyby happened, and two images have already been released. The two images show amazing detail as they were taken from a distance of about 1000 kilometers. We’ll have both images on our website, DailySpace.org, for you to peruse at your leisure. Enjoy the craters, the possible tectonic faults, and the patches of bright and dark material. One of the images was taken by the JunoCam imager and the second was with the Stellar Reference Unit star camera. (That second camera is the same one that helped scientists figure out that Earth’s zodiacal light phenomenon was caused by meteorite dust from Mars.)

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NASA JPL press release