Juno Probe Captures Stunning Earth-Moon Dance

As NASA’s Juno spacecraft was slingshot around Earth on October 9, it sent back some incredible images of the Earth-moon system as seen from a distance. Juno, which is headed to Jupiter, needed the trip around Earth in order to increase its speed as it heads to the gas giant for a July 4, 2016 rendezvous. "If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,' this is what the crew would see," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the...

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