Science and Exploration

NASA provides an update on Juno’s arrival at Jupiter after it enters orbit

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
July 5, 2016
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NASA provides an update on Juno’s arrival at Jupiter after it enters orbit
NASA provides an update on Juno's arrival at Jupiter.
NASA

On July 5, just hours after NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrived at the planet Jupiter, NASA held a press briefing at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California to provide a status update on the spacecraft.
Juno’s arrival at our solar system’s most massive planet was the culmination of a nearly five-year journey through space. The spacecraft will be the first to orbit the poles of Jupiter – on a mission to provide new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet’s core, composition and magnetic fields, as well as clues about the origins of our solar system.

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