10 Things You Need to Know About the Juno Mission
Get up to speed on the ways this daredevil probe will unlock Jupiter’s secrets, and find out some of Juno’s unique features.
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.
To mark the occasion, NASA unveiled a video providing a Juno’s-eye view of the fifth world from the sun, shot as the spacecraft approached the giant planet. The video is a time-lapse of images taken between June 12 and 29.
In it, you can see Jupiter surrounded by four large moons, gracefully orbiting in lockstep and slipping in and out of the planet’s shadow. These are the Galilean moons, observed in 1610 by the famed Italian astronomer in a discovery that would splinter existing ideas about Earth’s place in the universe. By orbiting Jupiter, the
