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The Juno spacecraft, which entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first explorer to peer below the planet's dense clouds to answer questions about the gas giant itself and the origins of our solar system.
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]
Juno is the first solar-powered spacecraft designed by NASA to operate at such a great distance from the Sun. Jupiter’s orbit is five times farther from the Sun than Earth’s, so the giant planet receives 4% as much sunlight as Earth does.
Juno, U.S. space probe designed to orbit the planet Jupiter. It is named for the Roman goddess who is the female counterpart to the god Jupiter. Juno orbits Jupiter every 11 days in a highly elliptical orbit over the planet’s poles.
On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter. This animation provides a “starship captain” point of view of each flyby.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly past Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on Tuesday, May 16, and then the gas giant itself soon after. The flyby of the Jovian moon will be the closest to date, at an altitude of about 22,060 miles (35,500 kilometers).
Will be the fastest spacecraft to enter orbit around a planet, at 130,000 mph (129,518 mph/57.9 km/s) relative to Earth.
NASA’s Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter on April 8, 2023. Since the spacecraft arrived at the giant planet in 2016, its JunoCam imager has captured spectacular views of Jupiter, and its large moons Ganymede , Europa , and Io .
New findings from NASA’s Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet’s distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds.
Juno will use its Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument to probe Jupiter's deep atmosphere, revealing new insights about its structure and composition. The instrument will make measurements that enable scientists to determine the amount of water in the planet's atmosphere.
Ride along with the Juno spacecraft as it performed its 27th close flyby of Jupiter on June 2, 2020. Explore all of our interviews, videos, and photos in one place. Hear from the Juno team, learn about Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft and so much more. Meet the team behind Mission Juno!
NASA’s Juno mission arrived at the King of Planets in July 2016. The intrepid robotic explorer has been revealing Jupiter's secrets ever since. Here are 10 historic Juno mission highlights. An artist rendering of Jupiter and the Juno spacecraft. 1. Arrival at a Colossus.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has certainly lived up to its namesake. By gazing beneath Jupiter’s swirling bands, Juno has been able to view the planet’s inner workings in a way no other probe has. Juno seeks to understand Jupiter’s past by studying its present mysteries.
NASA's Juno Spacecraft Glimpses Jupiter's Moons Io and Europa Full Resolution: TIFF (3.922 MB) JPEG (180.6 kB) 2022-02-22: Jupiter: Juno: JunoCam: 1920x1080x3: PIA25013: A View of Crescent Jupiter from Juno Full ...
After a daring, perfectly executed plunge through the most intense radiation a spacecraft has ever survived, NASA’s Juno probe pulled into orbit around Jupiter last night.
Juno is only the second long-term mission at Jupiter after the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited the planet from 1995 to 2003. Juno's mission is planned to last for five years, with its current...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant.
On Aug. 27, 2016, Juno experienced its first close approach of Jupiter, or perijove, sweeping just 2,600 miles (4,200 km) above Jupiter’s clouds, closer than any spacecraft in history.
On June 7, 2021, NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter, racing over its roiling atmosphere from pole to pole in less than three hours.
The Juno spacecraft traverses magnetic field lines connected to Io multiple times during each PJ, depending on Juno's approach longitude and Io's phase, at least once in the northern and once in the southern hemisphere. When Io's position (Io phase) is within a relatively small longitudinal separation with respect to the Juno spacecraft ...
Dark Ovals. This is not the first time dark ovals have been found on Jupiter. Discovered by Hubble in the late 1990s and by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in 2000, they have nevertheless been largely ...
Headed to Jupiter ’s moon Europa, NASA ’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is operating without a hitch and will reach Mars in just three months for a gravity assist. Launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, NASA’s Europa Clipper is headed to Jupiter’s moon Europa to assess its potential for life. The spacecraft has deployed critical instruments ...
The spacecraft, carrying a suite of sophisticated instruments, began its six-year voyage to Jupiter’s moon Europa—an icy world harboring an ocean containing twice the water of all Earth’s seas combined. ... This moon of Jupiter, slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, conceals a global ocean beneath its icy crust—a tantalizing environment ...
It's not the first time Voyager 1 has experienced communication problems; the spacecraft has certainly been showing its age. In 2022 and 2023, Voyager 1 began returning garbled telemetry, the ...
NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launched Oct. 14 on a journey to Jupiter’s moon Europa, is already 13 million miles (20 million kilometers) from Earth. Two science instruments have deployed hardware that will remain at attention, extending out from the spacecraft, for the next decade — through the cruise to Jupiter and the entire prime mission.
The issue – an inability to directly access the spacecraft memory storing the science data collected during the flyby – was most likely caused by a radiation spike as Juno flew through a radiation-intensive portion of Jupiter’s magnetosphere.
The spacecraft would use Jupiter's gravity to slingshot it towards a slow trajectory towards Neptune, which would extend the encounter and enable the spacecraft to completely map Triton's surface. Because of the extended flyby, Trident would take 13 years to reach Triton, reaching the moon in 2038.