🛰️ Mission
Juno
Diving between Jupiter’s radiation belts to see inside it.
- Launched
- 5 August 2011, 15 years ago
- Working for
- 15 years so far
- Built by
- NASA
- Where it is
- In a long looping orbit over Jupiter’s poles
- Best known for
- Showed that Jupiter’s core is fuzzy rather than solid, and photographed cyclones stacked around both poles
Did you know?
- It is the furthest solar-powered spacecraft ever flown: three arms of panels, each the length of a bus.
- Its electronics sit inside a titanium vault. Without it, Jupiter’s radiation would destroy them in months.
Where it went
Jupiter
The biggest planet, with a storm larger than Earth.
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All of missions
Hubble Space Telescope
Thirty-six years above the weather, and still working.
James Webb Space Telescope
A golden mirror that sees the first galaxies in infrared.
Chandra X-ray Observatory
The telescope that shows what is hot and violent.
Spitzer Space Telescope
Sixteen years of infrared, through dust that hides everything else.
Kepler
Stared at one patch of sky and found thousands of planets.
TESS
Kepler’s successor, watching the whole sky for planets.