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Juno in launch configuration. Juno is a NASA space probe orbiting the planet Jupiter.It was built by Lockheed Martin and is operated by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011 UTC, as part of the New Frontiers program. [6]
Published by NASA in March 2019, the "Jupiter Marble" image by Juno's JunoCam imager. The camera and the mission were not designed to study the moons of Jupiter. [12] JunoCam has a field of view that is too wide to resolve any detail in the Jovian moons except during close flybys.
Sit back and experience this stunning flyover of Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet. Created using imagery from a June 2, 2020 flyover of Jupiter by NASA's Juno mission. Credit to "NASA ...
The NASA Juno mission swooped by Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, capturing rich imagery of volcanic features. This is some of the clearest footage of Io ever documented.
Hansen is a collaborator on the Juno mission, and she is responsible for the JunoCam, the first interplanetary outreach camera. [14] [15] [16] The camera has produced the first close-up images of Jupiter's polar region. [17] [18] It was also used to capture images of volcanic plumes on Io, one of Jupiter's moons.
In August 2011 NASA sent a probe the size of a basketball court into space on a mission to observe Jupiter. Now, five years later, the $1 billion dollar probe has something to show for it's 415 ...
Juno Radiation Vault (the box being lowered onto the partially constructed spacecraft) in the process of being installed on Juno, 2010 Juno Radiation Vault is shown attached, but with the top open and some of the electronics boxes inside the vault can be seen The cube shaped JRV can be seen in between the un-wrapped main dish and the larger hexagonal main spacecraft body.
On 15 August 1959, the next Juno II was flown, carrying the Beacon satellite. While first-stage performance was nominal, the upper stages malfunctioned. [1] [2] [10] One intended experiment on this mission was the ejection of four flares stowed in the interstage section which would be tracked and photographed during the launch. However, things ...