“We have to be at the right place at just the right time, but if we are so fortunate, it’s a home run for sure," Juno's chief scientist, Scott Bolton of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement.
NASA spacecraft buzzes Jupiter moon Europa, closest in years
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The flyby can provide scientists a snapshot of how the magnetosphere interacts with Jupiter's magnetosphere and how well it protects the moon from the planet's charged particles, said Mr. Bolton.
NASA craft buzzes Jupiter's largest moon in closest flyby in 20 years
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