# @nasaartemis on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-10-08T18:29:23.000+00:00
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## Caption

I just came to say hello.

This view of the north polar region of the Moon was obtained by Galileo’s camera during the spacecraft’s flyby of the Earth-Moon system on December 7 and 8, 1992.

The Galileo mission flew by the Moon on the way to study Jupiter and its moons. The mission succeeded much more than that, however: it became the first spacecraft to visit an asteroid (two, in fact), provided the only direct observations of a comet colliding with a planet, and captured infrared images of Venus’ clouds.

The Galileo orbiter is credited for discovering evidence for the existence of a saltwater ocean beneath the Jovian moon Europa’s icy surface. Galileo plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere on September 21, 2003, to prevent an unwanted impact with Europa.

Image description: This black and white image shows the gray, cratered surface of the Moon against the blackness of space. The north pole of the Moon is to the lower right of the image. The view in the upper left is toward the horizon across the volcanic lava plains of Mare Imbrium. The prominent crater with the central peak is Pythagoras, an impact crater some 80 miles (130 kilometers) in diameter. The image was taken at a distance of 75,000 miles (121,000 kilometers) from the Moon through the violet filter of Galileo’s imaging system.

Credit: NASAJPL

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