RIME Achieves Major Milestone with First Focused Radargram
A major milestone has been reached by RIME (Radar for Icy Moon Exploration), the radar sounder aboard ESA’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy Moon Explorer) mission: its first focused radargram has been successfully generated.
This achievement confirms that RIME is functioning as expected, delivering high-quality radar data — a key step forward in preparing the instrument for its primary science phase at Jupiter’s icy moons.
The radargram was produced using data collected during a lunar flyby in August 2024. Remarkably, the region of the Moon scanned by RIME is the same area captured in the iconic “Earthrise” photograph taken by NASA astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968 — now seen from a completely new perspective.
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