2 years after its 1st flyby of Earth, the Galileo spacecraft snapped this pic of our Moon on its 2nd flyby #20YearsAgo today. Galileo used what flight planners called a "VEEGA," a Venus-Earth-Earth gravity assist, to gain momentum for its trip to Jupiter: https://go.nasa.gov/3UCutn1 #NASAhistory
Galileo was designed to make the first study of Jupiter and its moons and magnetosphere from orbit. The orbiter carried 10 science instruments and a atmospheric probe.
