The spacecraft will capture Jupiter and its moons before its latest mission.
NASA's DART spacecraft captures stunning Jupiter image
Those images weren't taken purely for observational reasons. NASA's DART mission team pointed the DRACO imager towards Jupiter on July 1 and August 2 to detect and target “The Jupiter tests gave us the opportunity for DRACO to image something in our own solar system,” said Carolyn Ernst, DRACO instrument scientist at APL. “The images look fantastic, and we are excited for what DRACO will reveal about Didymos and Dimorphos in the hours and minutes leading up to impact!”
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