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Lot 318
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NASA. LARGE FORMAT. JUNO mission. A rare and fantastic photograph of the Jovian moon Ganymede was obtained by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft during a flyby of the icy moon of JUPITER. The missing upper portion of the original JunoCam image was reconstructed, in large part, using an additional image. To make the new and improved image, small surface features were extracted from other locations on the surface of Ganymede. During the Jupiter flyby, Juno passed 1,038 kilometers above the surface of Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the solar system. The spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 4, 2016, but this was the first pass near one of Jupiter's large moons. Juno is a spin-stabilized spacecraft (with a spin rate of 2 revolutions per minute), and the JunoCam imager has a fixed field of view. To obtain images of Ganymede during Juno's rotation, the camera acquired one strip at a time as the target passed through its field of view. These image bands were captured separately through red, green, and blue filters. To generate the final image, the strips must be stitched together and the colors aligned. (The JUNO spacecraft is launched by an ATLAS V rocket on August 5, 2011, its objective is to study the planet JUPITER. JUNO is in orbit around Jupiter since July 4, 2016. It brings since then, a harvest of exceptional images of the planet JUPITER, unpublished since the 1st color photographs of Jupiter made by the space probes PIONEER and VOYAGER 1&2 in the 70s) Vintage chromogenic print. Numbering in the margin on the front. Legend on the back label. 40,6 x 40,6 cm with margins.
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