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"Juno is 3,000 miles from the planet when we took this picture. So, what you're looking at is a ring of dust that's 40,000 miles away and stars that are hundreds of light-years away, all in the ...
The Juno spacecraft has been orbiting around Jupiter for just shy of 7 years now, and the camera that was added purely for our benefit and enjoyment continues to deliver fantastic imagery of the cloud ...
Named after Jupiter’s cloud-piercing wife, Juno is only the second mission designed to spend time at Jupiter. Galileo, launched in 1989, circled Jupiter for 14 years, beaming back splendid views ...
See Jupiter's “frosted cupcake” clouds in this 3D rendering created using data from NASA's Juno mission. It's the first time images captured by the visible-light camera aboard the spacecraft ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured a stunning image of Jupiter’s chaotic clouds and cyclonic storms. The image of the gas giant’s northern hemisphere was taken during the spacecraft’s ...
The mission kicks into high gear in October when Juno fires its engine again to tighten its orbit. Then every two weeks, the spacecraft will skim Jupiter’s clouds to peek into its stormy atmosphere.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent its first photograph of Jupiter back to Earth. The high-resolution image, taken by the craft's JunoCam, shows Jupiter and its four largest moons – Io, Europa ...
Overall, Juno’s mission is to better understand the evolution of Jupiter, a planet so large that more than 1,300 Earths could fit inside it.
Plans called for Juno to swoop within 5,000 kilometres of Jupiter’s clouds — closer than previous missions — to map the planet’s gravity and magnetic fields in order to learn about the ...
More recently, during Juno's 49th pass over Jupiter in March, JunoCam captured streaks of haze hanging above Jupiter's cloud tops. This JunoCam image from March 1, 2023 shows bands of white haze ...