NASA’s Juno spacecraft started orbiting Jupiter today after a 5 year journey from Earth. During its approach, the spacecraft captured a series of photos over the span of multiple weeks, showing the planet’s moons in orbit. NASA then turned the images into the epic time-lapse seen in the 3-minute video above.
It’s the first time-lapse of its kind showing the moons orbiting Jupiter.
The first photo was captured in June 12th, when Juno was 10 million miles... more