Suppose you see a photo showing Jupiter half in sunlight and half in shadow (that is, a first quarter Jupiter). This photo might have been taken by _________.
The photo of Jupiter that is described in the statement might have been taken from the Galileo spacecraft that orbited Jupiter in the 1990s.
Explanation:
The Galileo Mission for the study of Jupiter which was launched in 1989 by NASA was intended at in-depth study of the gas giant and its mysterious moons.
The pictures taken by the Galileo spacecraft mostly show only one quarter of the planet owing to its size and the distance that the spacecraft maintained from the planet.
