JUICE launched last month on an eight-year journey to Jupiter.
The footage, which consists of 20 five-minute-long exposures, shows JUICE at its center surrounded by bright specks, which are background stars. At the time it was spotted by ART, JUICE was around 1 million miles from Earth. on Monday , writing:"Spotted! Our ground-based telescope captured #ESAJuice more than 1.
5 million km from Earth, on its way to Jupiter and its icy moons."because the spacecraft will need several gravity boosts from Earth, the moon and Venus to reach the fifth planet from the sun.in August 2024 to get a gravity assist from the Earth-moon system, the first time such a maneuver, officially called a lunar-Earth gravity assist , has been performed.
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