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Hi everyone,
I recently arrived at Jupiter and parked in an orbit roughly equivalent to Europa. I then planned a close fly-by of Jupiter and broughy my periapsis down to around 10,000KM. As I descended, I noticed that my SurfaceMFD had switched to Io, and that I was closing in with disturbing speed. I continued on, and missed by a comfortable distance which allowed me to watch the volcanic features of Io pass by over 1000KM away, but the suprise flyby made me wonder - has anyone else ever hit anything by accident, like a Jovian moon or Earth's moon as you were ejecting from Eart orbit?
I recently arrived at Jupiter and parked in an orbit roughly equivalent to Europa. I then planned a close fly-by of Jupiter and broughy my periapsis down to around 10,000KM. As I descended, I noticed that my SurfaceMFD had switched to Io, and that I was closing in with disturbing speed. I continued on, and missed by a comfortable distance which allowed me to watch the volcanic features of Io pass by over 1000KM away, but the suprise flyby made me wonder - has anyone else ever hit anything by accident, like a Jovian moon or Earth's moon as you were ejecting from Eart orbit?