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01.13.17
Crescent Jupiter with the Great Red Spot
This image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot was created by a citizen scientist (Roman Tkachenko) using data from Juno's JunoCam instrument.
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12.14.16
Juno Captures Jupiter 'Pearl'
This image, highlights the seventh of Jupiter’s eight ‘string of pearls’-- massive counterclockwise rotating storms that appear as white ovals in the gas giant's southern hemisphere.
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12.09.16
NASA Juno Mission Prepares for December 11 Jupiter Flyby
On Sunday, December 11, at 9:04 a.m. PST, NASA’s Juno spacecraft will make its third science flyby of Jupiter.
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12.09.16
Visions of Harmony: Inspired by NASA’s Mission Juno
This Apple Music original celebrates the space agency’s groundbreaking journey to Jupiter—and the intersection between science and art.
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10.25.16
NASA's Juno Mission Exits Safe Mode, Performs Trim Maneuver
NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter has left safe mode and has successfully completed a minor burn of its thruster engines in preparation for its next close flyby of Jupiter.
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10.19.16
Juno Spacecraft in Safe Mode for Latest Jupiter Flyby. Scientists Intrigued by Data from First Flyby.
Juno mission managers are working to bring the spacecraft out of safe mode, while the science team shares interesting findings from the August 27 Jupiter flyby.
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10.14.16
Mission Prepares for Next Jupiter Pass
Mission managers for Juno have decided to postpone the upcoming burn of its main rocket motor originally scheduled for Oct. 19. This burn, called the period reduction maneuver (PRM), was to reduce Juno’s orbital period around Jupiter from 53.4 to 14 days.
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08.27.16
NASA's Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby
NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDTwhen Juno passed about 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds.
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08.25.16
Juno to Soar Closest to Jupiter This Saturday
This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT Juno will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the moment of closest approach, Juno will be about 2,500 miles above Jupiter's swirling clouds and traveling at 130,000 mph with respect to the planet.
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07.29.16
Five Years Post-Launch, Juno Is at a Turning Point
Juno will reach the farthest point in its orbit of Jupiter for the first time, known as “apojove."
