According to astronomers, Juno was 71 thousand km above the clouds of Jupiter when filming the shadow of the largest
The image was taken by volunteer scientist Thomas Thomopoulos using a JunoCam device. If an ordinary person flew through this shadow, they would observe a total eclipse of the Sun, astronomers said.
The agency noted that JunoCam took this image very close to Jupiter, which makes Ganymede's shadow appear especially large.
Total eclipses are more common on Jupiter thanon Earth, say NASA representatives. They added that the planet has four large moons - Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto - that orbit closer to Jupiter than the Moon is to Earth.
The Juno spacecraft is on a long-term mission to study the weather and dynamics of Jupiter. Observing the planet from such a close distance gives scientists data on what exoplanets are like.
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