During the Earth flyby (EFB), the science team observed Earth using most of Juno’s nine science instruments including, JunoCam, since the slingshot also served as an important dress rehearsal and key test of the spacecraft’s instruments, systems and flight operations teams. The JunoCam ima...
An artist's depiction fo the Juno spacecraft observing Ganymede during the flyby on June 7, 2021. Juno launched to space ten years ago on Aug. 5 2011. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Ten years since it launched and five years since arriving at Jupiter, Juno has been hard at work ...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly by Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io In the latest of more than 50 flybys, NASA's Juno spacecraft is slated to pass Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on Tuesday. The agency said this will be the closest flyby to date. Jupiter April 12, 2023 Europe's JUICE miss...
Analysis of the data obtained when massive pieces of the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 plunged into Jupiter in 1994 has extended our knowledge of the Jovian atmosphere, and the space probe Juno revealed a number of smaller storms, each roughly the size of the earth, clustered at the planet's poles...
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation. Juno determined the gas giant's secular variation is most likely driven by the planet's deep atmospheric winds. The ...
6, 2018 (10:13 p.m. EDT) as the spacecraft performed its 15th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 55,600 miles (89,500 kilometers) from the planet's cloud tops, above a southern latitude of approximately 75 degrees. Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt created this ...
While NASA’s Juno mission continues to explore Jupiter in depth, two missions are currently in the works to explore Jupiter and its moons in even greater detail. These missions are the European Space Agency’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The...
NASA's Juno orbiter has made its first and nearest orbital flyby of Jupiter, snapping the closest close-up ever of giant planet's north pole. NASA expects to release some of the images it captured over the next two weeks.
fans for its JunoCam instrument which often captures gorgeous images of thebeauty of the planet Jupiterandits moons. Earlier this year the spacecraft made its 49th close flyby of the planet, and NASA recently released some more stunning images taken as it whizzed by the planet’s cloud ...
“Already we see that the magnetic field looks lumpy,” said Jack Connerney, Juno deputy principal investigator and lead for Juno’s magnetic field investigation, “it is stronger in some places and weaker in others. This uneven distribution suggests that the field might be generated by dynamo ...