NASA's Juno Orbiter Just Released New Pictures Of Jupiter's Amazing Cloud-Covered Atmosphere
NASAs Juno was launched on August 5 2011 from Cape Canaveral in Florida and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4 2016. The orbiter has been sending some breathtaking snapshots of the king of planets ever since. The spacecraft made its eighth fly-by of Jupiter on Oct 24 captured images of the planet and then sent that data back to NASA on Oct 31.
NASA's Juno was launched on August 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral in Florida and arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016.
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The orbiter has been sending some breathtaking snapshots of the king of planets ever since. More recently, NASA released a bunch of new photographs of Jupiter that show the planet¡¯s breathtaking cloud-covered atmosphere.
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The spacecraft made its eighth fly-by of Jupiter on Oct. 24, captured images of the planet, and then sent that data back to NASA on Oct. 31. The orbiter's primary scientific mission is to study Jupiter¡¯s magnetic field, composition and gravity field.
The orbiter also passed directly over Jupiter¡¯s Great Red Spot, the 16,000km-wide storm on the face of the gas giant making it a first for humanity to explore the storm feature.
