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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]
This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard impacts.The list includes orbiters that were intentionally crashed, but not orbiters which later crashed in an unplanned manner due to orbital decay.
Raw new images from the Juno probe's ninth flyby of the planet have been sent back to Earth -- and they are gorgeous. NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back stunning new photos of the gas ...
This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
Once every 53.5 days, NASA's Juno probe screams over Jupiter's cloud, capturing stunning images in the process. NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back dazzling new photos of the giant ...
The robot gets relatively close to the gas giant planet and takes new photos with its JunoCam instrument roughly every 53 days. NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has taken mind-bending new photos of ...
While NASA workers were sipping coffee on Wednesday morning, the agency's Juno probe was screaming over the cloud tops of Jupiter at 130,000 miles per hour. NASA's $1 billion Jupiter probe has ...
The first spacecraft to explore Jupiter was Pioneer 10, which flew past the planet in December 1973, followed by Pioneer 11 twelve months later. Pioneer 10 obtained the first close-up images of Jupiter and its Galilean moons; the spacecraft studied the planet's atmosphere, detected its magnetic field, observed its radiation belts and determined ...