Check out this breathtaking image of a Jupiter solar eclipse captured as the Juno spacecraft made its 40th trip around Jupiter.
. The Juno spacecraft captured the Jupiter solar eclipse as it passed 44,000 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops.
Juno took this image from a latitude of around 55 degrees south. At the time, Juno was 15 times closer than Ganymede, which orbits 666,000 miles away from Jupiter.The image is a reminder of just how beautiful space is, and how often the Jupiter surface experienced solar eclipses. The gas giant experiences total eclipses of the Sun far more often than the Earth. That’s because Jupiter’s four major moons, often called Galilean satellites, passed between the planet and the Sun quite often.
The United States will experience a total solar eclipse in a few years. However, areas on Jupiter experience solar eclipses far more frequently. Throughout their orbit, the Ganymede transits once, Europa transits twice, and IO transits up to four times, all in the span of seven days. Since these moons orbit close to Jupiter’s own orbital plane, their shadows often span across the planet.
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