NASA is celebrating Independence Day this year by putting a spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter. The space agency’s Juno mission is slated to arrive at the massive planet on the night of July 4th, after having traveled across more than 1.7 billion miles of space over the past five years. Once Juno arrives, the probe’s main engine will fire, slowing the spacecraft down and placing it into orbit around Jupiter. It’s an important event for the mission, especially since NASA has only one shot at getting it right. If Juno flies past Jupiter, the mission will be blown.
Juno will eventually fly closer to the gas giant than any other spacecraft before
If all goes as planned, Juno will eventually fly closer to the gas giant than any other...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will soon reach Jupiter and start unlocking the planet’s secrets
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