Bon voyage!
Juice beamed back this image of Earth shortly after its launch on Friday. The coastline around the Gulf of Aden can be made out to the right of center, with patchy clouds above land and sea.
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or Juice for short, used its monitoring cameras located on the spacecraft’s body to beam back the goodbye images as it sails toward Jupiter — a trip that will take eight years. The 1024×1024 photos of Earth are partially obscured by Juice and were lightly processed with a “preliminary color adjustment.”
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