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09.12.23
A Portrait of Planet and Moon: NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Jupiter and Io Together
Just hours before NASA’s Juno mission completed its 53rd close flyby of Jupiter on July 31, 2023, the spacecraft sped past the planet’s volcanic moon Io and captured this dramatic view of both bodies in the same frame.
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07.26.23
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io
When NASA’s Juno mission flies by Jupiter’s fiery moon Io on Sunday, July 30, the spacecraft will be making its closest approach yet, coming within 13,700 miles (22,000 kilometers) of it.
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06.23.23
NASA’s Juno Mission Observes High-Altitude Hazes in Jupiter’s atmosphere
On March 1, 2023, NASA’s Juno mission completed its 49th close flyby of Jupiter. As the spacecraft flew low over the giant planet’s cloud tops, its JunoCam instrument captured this look at bands of high-altitude haze forming above cyclones in an area known at Jet N7.
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06.15.23
NASA’s Juno Mission Captures Lightning On Jupiter
In this view of a vortex near Jupiter’s north pole, NASA’s Juno mission observed the glow from a bolt of lightning.
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05.15.23
NASA’s Juno Mission Getting Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will fly past Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io on Tuesday, May 16, and then the gas giant itself soon after. The flyby of the Jovian moon will be the closest to date, at an altitude of about 22,060 miles (35,500 kilometers). Now in the third year of its extended mission to investigate the interior of Jupiter, the solar-powered spacecraft will also explore the ring system where some of the gas giant’s inner moons reside.
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04.10.23
NASA’s Juno Mission Marks 50 Orbits Around Jupiter
On April 8, 2023 NASA’s Juno mission completed its 50th close pass by Jupiter since the spacecraft arrived at the giant planet in 2016. In celebration of 50 orbits, this graphic contains 50 images that provide just a small sampling of the data Juno has returned so far, including images from several different instruments, and spectacular views of Earth, Jupiter, and Jupiter’s large moons Ganymede, Europa, and Io.
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02.21.23
SETI Live: Catching Up with a Gas Giant
Join Dr. Scott Bolton as he chats with communications specialist Beth Johnson about this important mission, what we have learned, and what comes next.
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01.30.23
NASA’s Juno Team Assessing Camera After 48th Flyby of Jupiter
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft did not acquire all planned images during the orbiter’s most recent flyby of Jupiter on Jan. 22.
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12.29.22
Update on Juno’s Io Flyby and Image Data Status
JunoCam captured this image of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on Dec. 14 from a distance of about 40,000 miles. The team expects additional images from the pass to be available soon.
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12.23.22
Juno Spacecraft Recovering Memory After 47th Flyby of Jupiter
The science data from the solar-powered spacecraft’s most recent flyby of Jupiter and its moon Io appears to be intact.
