Voyage to Planet Jupiter | NASA's Juno Mission | JPL
JunoCam - Perijove 47 (12-15-22) [PipploIMP]
Jupiter plus moons Io, Ganymede & Europa - PJ47-3 [Kevin Gill]
Jupiter - PJ47-79 [Kevin Gill]
Jupiter - PJ47-113 - Detail [Kevin Gill]
Jupiter - PJ47-93 - Detail [Kevin Gill]
Jupiter's familiar stripes and swirls are actually cold, windy clouds of ammonia and water, floating in an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a giant storm bigger than Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.
Juno Mission Profile
Launched: Aug. 5, 2011
Arrival at Jupiter: July 4, 2016
Goal: Understand origin and evolution of Jupiter, look for solid planetary core, map magnetic field, measure water and ammonia in deep atmosphere, observe auroras.
Learn more about the Juno mission at: www.nasa.gov/juno
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Juno mission for NASA. The mission's principal investigator is Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The mission is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, managed at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill/PipploIMP
Release Dates: Jan. 4-8, 2023
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