13-07-2016 10:27 via indianexpress.com

NASA’s Juno spacecraft beams back first image of Jupiter

JunoCam is a colour, visible-light camera designed to capture remarkable pictures of Jupiter’s poles and cloud tops. (Source:NASA)
JunoCam – the camera aboard NASA’s Juno mission – has sent back some of the first images of Jupiter along with three of its four largest moons taken after the spacecraft entered orbit around the king of planets on July 4.
Juno’s visible-light camera was turned on six days after Juno fired its main engine and placed itself into orbit aro
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