Juno Mission | Solar powered Spacecraft | Nasa | Jupiter | Space | Facts about Juno Mission

The Juno spacecraft was launched on August 5, 2011, with the primary mission of studying the planet Jupiter.

Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, after the Galileo mission, which orbited the planet from 1995 to 2003.

Juno is the first spacecraft to fly over Jupiter's poles, providing unprecedented views of the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field.

The spacecraft is named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno, who was the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology.

Juno's mission will officially end in September 2025, or until the spacecraft can no longer function.

Juno has already made several discoveries, including evidence of a massive water layer beneath the planet's atmosphere and auroras at Jupiter's pole.

The spacecraft is powered by solar panels, making it the first solar-powered spacecraft to operate so far from the sun.

Juno's orbit around Jupiter is highly elliptical, taking it as close as 2,600 miles to the planet's cloud tops and as far as 5 million miles away.

Juno's mission is a collaboration between NASA, the Italian Space Agency, and several other international partners.

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