NASA has released the first image taken by the Juno spacecraft while in orbit of the solar system’s largest planet. The first high-resolution image will be snapped on August 27 when Juno makes a close pass of the planet. Juno will circle the planet for the next 20 months, completing 37 orbits and swinging as close as 2,700 miles to Jupiter’s surface. The image was taken on July 10 some 2.7 million miles from Jupiter as Juno worked through the outbound leg of its initial 53.5-day orbit, according to a release from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We were moving past Jupiter, relative to the Earth, faster than any spacecraft has ever gone,” Bolton told The Huffington Post.

Source: Huffington Post July 13, 2016 05:39 UTC