The high-resolution science camera on the JUICE probe, which is ultimately headed to Jupiter, was busy snapping images of craters on the moon and clouds in Earth's atmosphere as the spacecraft flew past our planet to use our world's gravity and re-route itself toward the next stop on its eight-year voyage to the Jovian system.
JUICE, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, is a European Space Agency mission to the gas planet that launched in April of 2023. The spacecraft's route to Jupiter is a circuitous one, however, with visits first to Earth and Venus. Those visits are meant to allow for gravitational assists that help JUICE build up enough velocity to expel itself from the inner solar system with minimal fuel and toward a rendezvous with Jupiter in July 2031.
