JUICE Probe Takes Selfies and Farewell Photos on Journey to Jupiter
TL;DR
The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft, which is on an eight-year mission to study Jupiter's icy moons, captured its first images just hours after launching on Friday. The images show the spacecraft's solar array deployment and Earth as a stellar background. JUICE will use the gravity of the Earth-Moon system to propel it on its trajectory through the inner solar system.
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