The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) has successfully completed a world-first lunar-Earth flyby, using Earth’s gravity to send it on a shortcut to Jupiter via Venus, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported on Wednesday. Juice flew just 6,840 kilometres above South East Asia and the Pacific Ocean, taking images with its onboard monitoring cameras and collecting scientific data with eight of its 10 instruments, ESA said from its operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. “The gravity assist flyby was flawless, everything went without a hitch, and we were thrilled to see Juice coming back so clo…