CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -A flyby of Ganymede occurred on June 7, 2021, 17:35 UTC, coming within 1, 038 km (645 mi), the closest any spacecraft has come to the moon since Galileo in 2000. A flyby of Europa took place on September 29, 2022, at a distance of 352 km (219 mi).

Detailed explanation-2: -Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, after a five-year, 1, 740-million-mile journey, and settled into a 53-day polar orbit stretching from just above Jupiter’s cloud tops to the outer reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and the fifth planet from the sun. The gas giant has a long, rich, history of surprising scientists. Named after the kind of the gods in Roman mythology this “king of the planets” is a stormy enigma shrouded in colorful clouds.

Detailed explanation-4: -What is Voyager 1? No spacecraft has gone farther than NASA’s Voyager 1. Launched in 1977 to fly by Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012 and continues to collect data.

Detailed explanation-5: -It blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on board an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft traveled roughly 3 billion kilometers (nearly 2 billion miles) before arriving at Jupiter on July 4, 2016.