Stunning Juno Approach Video shows Cosmic Ballet of Jupiter’s large Moons
NASA celebrated the successful orbital insertion of the Juno spacecraft Monday night, becoming the second to enter orbit around the Gas Giant after the Galileo mission flown in the 1990s. After Juno...
View ArticleA close Brush past Jupiter – NASA’s Juno becomes 2nd Spacecraft to Orbit Gas...
Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech All fingers were crossed and all eyes were on the screens at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where the signals from the faraway Juno probe showed the spacecraft slowing down to...
View ArticleExciting Science lies ahead for Juno, unveiling Jupiter’s obscured Secrets
Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully sailed into orbit around Jupiter Monday night after a five-year journey through the Solar System, becoming only the second craft to enter...
View ArticleOutline: Juno’s Capture Orbits around Jupiter
Image: Lockheed Martin NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully achieved orbit around Jupiter Monday night to mark the end of a 2.8-billion Kilometer journey and the start of a 20-month mission of discovery...
View ArticleJuno completes closest Pass of Jupiter ahead of Orbital Trim Maneuver
Photo: NASA/JPL/Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed the first of 36 close orbital flybys of Jupiter last weekend after swinging around the planet in a highly elliptical orbit following the...
View ArticleJuno delivers spectacular Images from first Orbital Flyby of Jupiter
Jupiter’s north pole seen during Juno’s August 27 approach from a distance of around 195,000 Kilometers – Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS NASA’s released spectacular photos on Friday showing planet...
View ArticleRocket Burn postponed for NASA’s Juno, to remain in elongated Jupiter Orbit...
Jupiter’s north pole seen during Juno’s August 27 approach from a distance of around 195,000 Kilometers – Photo: NASA/JPL/Caltech/MSSS Instead of spiraling down into a two-week science orbit around...
View ArticleJuno Spacecraft enters Safe Mode, Loses valuable Science on close Jupiter Pass
Image: NASA NASA’s Juno spacecraft – currently in a highly elongated orbit around Gas Giant Jupiter – unexpectedly entered safe mode on Wednesday preventing its scientific instruments from capturing...
View ArticleJuno Spacecraft Recovers from Safe Mode, adjusts Orbit for next Jupiter Pass
Image: NASA/JPLCaltech NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been recovered from an unplanned Safe Mode and is entering preparations for a December 11 flyby of Jupiter while teams continue studying a pair of...
View ArticleJuno delivers new Data from Jupiter, Future Flight Plan under Evaluation
Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech NASA’s Juno spacecraft brushed past Jupiter on Sunday, marking the mission’s first operational science data collection with seven of the craft’s instruments active as the probe...
View ArticleNASA Juno Spacecraft to remain in Elongated Capture Orbit around Jupiter
Image: NASA/JPL/Caltech NASA’s faraway Juno spacecraft will remain in a highly elongated orbit around Jupiter for the remainder of its mission as engineers opted against performing a burn of the...
View ArticlePhotos of Juno’s latest Encounter with Jupiter
JunoCam photo on approach to Perijove 5, Io & Europa are pictured as crescents in the lower right – Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Roman Tkachenko NASA’s Juno Spacecraft on Monday...
View ArticleFaraway Juno Spacecraft Zips past Jupiter for Mission’s Seventh Close Encounter
Close-Up views of Jupiter’s Cloud Tops captured by Juno Cam on Perijove 6 (May 19) – Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed the mission’s fifth science pass on...
View ArticleNASA Juno Captures Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Like Never Before
Enhanced view of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot – Credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major NASA’s faraway Juno spacecraft had its eighth close encounter with Jupiter this week and has since sent back...
View ArticlePhotos from Juno’s Seventh Science Flyby of Jupiter
Perijove 8 Sequence – Credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt/Seán Doran NASA’s spinning Juno spacecraft had its seventh science flyby over Jupiter’s cloud tops on Friday, September 1st at 21:49 UTC,...
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