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Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with their interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe”,
 that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the cosmos from the present to the moments after the Big Bang.
 While JHU is responsible for creating the site, additional contributions were made by NASA, the European Space Agency,
 the National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation.

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Juno has been headed for Jupiter since 2011 to study the gas giant’s atmosphere, aurora, gravity and magnetic field.

 This infographic illustrates the radiation environments Juno has traveled through on its journey near Earth and in interplanetary space.

All of space is filled with particles, and when these particles get moving at high speeds, they’re called radiation.

 NASA studies space radiation to better protect spacecraft as they travel through space, as well as to understand how this space environment

 influences planetary evolution. After Jupiter orbit insertion on July 4, 2016, Juno will have the chance to study one of the most intense radiation 

 environments in our solar system.

JunoCam took this image during its eleventh close flyby of Jupiter on February 7, 2018.
 Image credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / David Marriott.

In preparation for the imminent arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft in July 2016,

 astronomers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to obtain spectacular new infrared images

 of Jupiter using the VISIR instrument. This false-colour image was created by selecting

 and combining the best images obtained from many short VISIR exposures at a wavelength of 5 micrometres.

 Image credit: ESO/L. Fletcher.

False colour images generated from VLT observations in February 2016 (left) and March 2016 (right),

showing two different faces of Jupiter. The bluer areas are cold and cloud-free, the orangey areas are warm and cloudy,

 more colourless bright regions are warm and cloud-free, and dark regions are cold and cloudy (such as the Great Red Spot 

 and the prominent ovals). The wave pattern over the North Equatorial Band shows up in orange.

 These views were created from VLT/VISIR infrared images. The orange images were obtained at 10.7 micrometres wavelength 

 and highlight the different temperatures and presence of ammonia.

 The blue images at 8.6 micrometres highlight variations in cloud opacity.

 Image credit: ESO/L. Fletcher.

This view compares a lucky imaging view of Jupiter from VISIR (left) at infrared wavelengths with a

 very sharp amateur image in visible light from about the same time (right).

 Image credit: ESO/L. Fletcher/Damian Peach.

Home/News/Juno gets the first-ever view of Jupiter's North Pole
Juno gets the first-ever view of Jupiter's North Pole
Some never-before-seen features come to light.
By Carl Engelking  |  Published: Friday, September 02, 2016

Even from afar, we always knew Jupiter was a bit of an oddball, and upon closer examination we were correct.

On Aug. 27, NASA’s Juno spacecraft, with all its instruments blazing, swooped within 2,500 miles of the Jovian surface

 and beamed back the first-ever images of its north pole. It was the first of 36 planned flybys planned for the mission,

 so there’s plenty more where this came from. Still, even from the first 6-megabyte download, Jupiter’s revealing

 why it’s unlike any other planet in our solar system.

An infrared glimpse at Jupiter’s south pole.

 (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)

“First glimpse of Jupiter’s north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before,”

said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the 

Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio in a press statement Friday September 02, 2016.

Juno probe peers below Jupiter's clouds 

This image from Juno’s JunoCam captured the south pole in visible light only. 
It’s a puzzle why the north and south poles are so similar, yet have a different number of cyclones.
 Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles 
 Credit bbc.com"

GAZE IN WONDER AT JUPITER’S MYSTERIOUS GEOMETRIC POLAR STORMS

This wondrous image of Jupiter's south pole shows the arrangement of cyclones
 that is unique in our Solar System: five circumpolar cyclones perfectly arranged 
 around a single polar cyclone.
 Image: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS

This composite imageshows the central cyclone at the planet’s north pole 
and the eight cyclones that encircle it. 
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM.
 This is hardly the orange, white and saffron belted world we are familiar 
 with from telescope views of the lower latitudes. The scale of these storms is, 
 as you would expect with Jupiter, quite impressive. Alberto Adriani is a Juno co-investigator
 based at the Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome:

This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, 
looking up toward the equatorial region.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby
 of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7, 2018 at 7:11 a.m. PST (10:11 a.m. EST). 
 At the time, the spacecraft was 74,896 miles (120,533 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds
 at 84.9 degrees south latitude.
Citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
 This image was created by reprocessing raw JunoCam data using trajectory and pointing data
 from the spacecraft. This image is one in a series of images taken in an experiment to capture
 the best results for illuminated parts of Jupiter's polar region.
To make features more visible in Jupiter’s terminator — the region where day meets night — 
the Juno team adjusted JunoCam so that it would perform like a portrait photographer
 taking multiple photos at different exposures, hoping to capture one image with the intended light balance.
 For JunoCam to collect enough light to reveal features in Jupiter’s dark twilight zone, 
 the much brighter illuminated day-side of Jupiter becomes overexposed with the higher exposure.
JunoCam's raw images are available for the 
public to peruse and process into image products at:
       
More information about Juno is at: and here

Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt

For almost 200 years humans have been watching the Great Red Spot (GRS) on Jupiter and wondering what’s behind it.
 Thanks to NASA’s Juno mission, we’ve been getting better and better looks at it. New images from JunoCam 
 reveal some of the deeper detail in our Solar System’s longest-lived storm.

Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot have gotten better over the decades.
 On the left is an image from the Voyager mission, middle is an image from the Galileo mission,
 and on the right is a Hubble Space Telescope Image.
 Image: NASA/ESA/Evan Gough

JunoCam image of the Great Red Spot showing:

 (A) compact cloud clusters;
 
 (B) mesoscale waves;
 (C) spiraling vortices;
 
 (D) a central turbulent nucleus;
 (E) examples of elongated thin dark gray filaments.

 Image: NASA/A. Sanchez-Lavega et. al.

The study identifies five different morphological features in the Great Red Spot.
 From top to bottom:
 

 compact cloud clusters
 mesoscale waves
 spiraling vortices
 
 the central turbulent nucleus
 and large dark thin filaments
 Image: American Astronomical Society/Sanchez-Lavega et al.

Technician’s install Juno’s titanium vault. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LMSS)

The JUNO ProBe on it's way to Florida

Exploded diagram of the Juno Probe

Atlas Rocket Ready to launch

Juno Mission Clearing the Lightning Rod's Towers

Juno soars skyward to Jupiter on Aug. 5, 2011 from launch pad 41 at

 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT. View from the VAB roof.

 Credit: Ken Kremer/

Juno Mission on the way!!!

Juno Mission Launch Vehicle Diagram

NASA prepares its Jupiter probe JUNO for arrival blogger-avatarby Jon Fingas July 08, 2015

It's been a long time in coming, but NASA's Juno probe is finally close to reaching Jupiter.

NASA reports that the spacecraft is "on track" to arrive on July 4th, 2016 (how American!), 

and that the ground crew is tweaking the flight plan to at once give Juno more time and complete tasks ahead of schedule.

The ship's initial orbit is splitting into two in order to test instruments before the science gathering starts.

 Also, it'll take 14 days to complete an orbit rather than the originally planned 11.

   [Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]

NASA prepares its Jupiter probe JUNO for arrival blogger-avatarby Jon Fingas July 08, 2015

Since its launch five years ago, there have been three forces tugging at NASA's Juno spacecraft 

as it speeds through the solar system. The sun, Earth and Jupiter have all been influential --

 a gravitational trifecta of sorts. At times, Earth was close enough to be the frontrunner. 

 More recently, the sun has had the most clout when it comes to Juno's trajectory. 

 Today, it can be reported that Jupiter is now in the gravitational driver’s seat,

 and the basketball court-sized spacecraft is not looking back.

The Juno spacecraft will enter orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016,

 picking up the exploration efforts NASA's Galileo mission began 20 years ago.

Illustration of NASA’s Juno spacecraft firing its main engine
to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter.
Lockheed Martin built the Juno spacecraft for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Protecting Juno’s Heart by EVAN GOUGH on NOVEMBER 4, 2015

A computer-generated image of the Juno spacecraft. NASA/JPL-Caltech

Uploaded on Jun 28, 2011
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and HERE
Juno's unique polar orbit is the key to the mission's design. What's so special about it?
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Juno spacecraft and its science instruments. Image credit: NASA/JPL

Juno orbital graphic

This annotated color view of Jupiter and its four largest moons -- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto --

 was taken by the JunoCam camera on NASA's Juno spacecraft on June 21, 2016, at a distance of

 6.8 million miles (10.9 million kilometers) from Jupiter. 

 Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft firing its main engine to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter.
Lockheed Martin built the Juno spacecraft for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin

Published on Jun 23, 2016 Secrets lie deep within Jupiter, shrouded in the solar system's strongest magnetic field
and most lethal radiation belts. On July 4, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft will plunge into
uncharted territory, entering orbit around the gas giant and passing closer than any spacecraft before.
Juno will see Jupiter for what it really is, but first it must pass the trial of orbit insertion.
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JUNO CAPTURES A STUNNING JOVIAN ‘PEARL’ December 2016

New Juno image of Jupiter taken on Dec. 11, 2016. Processed by Damian Peach

This is the original image sent by JunoCam on Dec. 11 and features the eighth
 in a string of large storms in the planet’s southern hemisphere. 
 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

4-frame animation spans 24 Jovian days, or about 10 Earth days. The passage of time is accelerated
 by a factor of 600,000. Some of the ovals are visible as well as a variety of jets
 – west to east and east to west.
 Credit: NASA

JUNO BUZZES JUPITER A MERE 4,300 KM’S ABOVE THE CLOUD TOPS

Illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft firing its main engine to slow down and go into orbit around Jupiter.
 Lockheed Martin built the Juno spacecraft for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 
 Credit: NASA/Lockheed Martin

False color view of Jupiter’s polar haze, created by citizen scientist Gerald Eichstädt
 using data from the JunoCam instrument. 
 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Eric Jorgensen

To accomplish its science objectives, Juno is orbiting Jupiter’s poles and passing very close to the planet,
 avoiding the most powerful (and hazardous) radiation belts in the process. 
 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Juno’s Latest Close Flyby of Jupiter on This Week @NASA – February 3, 2017

Published on Feb 3, 2017
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its latest close flyby of Jupiter Feb. 2 -- passing about 2,700 miles above the planet’s clouds. 
This was the fourth close flyby since Juno began orbiting Jupiter last year on July 4. During these close passes instruments
 on the spacecraft probe beneath the cloud cover to collect scientific data about the planet's structure,
 atmosphere and magnetosphere. This information could help us better understand the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.
 Also, Cassini Sees Saturn’s Rings in Greater Detail, The Most Extreme Blazars, NASA at Super Bowl Event,
 NASA at NBA Black Heritage Celebration, and
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JUNO WILL GET NO CLOSER TO JUPITER DUE TO ENGINE TROUBLES

Jupiter’s south pole. captured by the JunoCam on Feb. 2, 2017, from an altitude of about 62,800 miles (101,000 kilometers)
 above the cloud tops.
 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/John Landino

This amateur-processed image was taken on Dec. 11th, 2016, at 9:27 a.m. PST (12:27 p.m. EST),
 as NASA’s Juno spacecraft performed its third close flyby of Jupiter.
 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Eric Jorgensen

Jupiter: Into the Unknown (NASA Juno Mission Trailer)

Published on Jun 23, 2016
Secrets lie deep within Jupiter, shrouded in the solar system's strongest magnetic field and most lethal radiation belts.
 On July 4, 2016, NASA's Juno spacecraft will plunge into uncharted territory, entering orbit around the gas giant and passing 
 closer than any spacecraft before. Juno will see Jupiter for what it really is, but first it must pass the trial of orbit insertion.
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Published on Feb 3, 2017
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made its latest close flyby of Jupiter Feb. 2 -- passing about 2,700 miles above the planet’s clouds. 
This was the fourth close flyby since Juno began orbiting Jupiter last year on July 4. During these close passes instruments
 on the spacecraft probe beneath the cloud cover to collect scientific data about the planet's structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
 This information could help us better understand the planetary systems being discovered around other stars.
 Also, Cassini Sees Saturn’s Rings in Greater Detail, The Most Extreme Blazars, 
 NASA at Super Bowl Event, NASA at NBA Black Heritage Celebration, and Day of Remembrance!
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A new, smaller cyclone can be seen at the lower right of this infrared image of Jupiter's south pole
 taken on Nov. 4, 2019, during the 23rd science pass of the planet by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
(Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM)

This is the first glimpse of JUICE’s eventual destination captured 
by the spacecraft’s NavCam during ground testing.
 Image Credit: Airbus Defense and Space.

In less than 24 hours, ESA will launch the most ambitious mission ever to Jupiter's mysterious icy moons. 
 The JUICE will search for biosignautres on Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, and determine which
 of these moons will be best suited for future colonization.
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The moons of Jupiter: What will Juice discover?

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 to explore the moons of Jupiter - primarily Europa, Ganymede and Callisto with the spacecraft ultimately
 in orbit around Ganymede making it the first spacecraft to orbit the moon of another planet

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Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Takes A Small Step To Seek Habitable Worlds by ELIZABETH HOWELL on DECEMBER 1, 2014

Artist?s impression of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) near Jupiter and one of its moons, Europa. Credit: ESA/AOES

It takes years of painstaking work to get a spacecraft off the ground. So when you have a spacecraft like JUICE (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)

 set to launch in 2022, you need to back up about a decade to get things figured out. How will the spacecraft get there? 

 What science instruments will it carry? What will the spacecraft look like and what systems will support its work?

Artist concept of JUICE, an ESA concept for a Jupiter-moons orbiter mission. Credit: ESA

JUICE will spend almost five years studying Jupiter’s ocean-bearing moons.
 From left to right, JUICE will visit Callisto for multiple flybys, 
 Europa for two flybys, and Ganymede for flybys and orbital insertion.
 Image Credit left to right: NASA/JPL/DLR; NASA/JPL/DLR; NASA/JPL.

A raw image from JUICE’s NavCam. In this image, taken at a distance of over 600 million km (373 million miles) 
the moons are only a few pixels.
Image Credit: Airbus Defence and Space.

A simulated NavCam view of Jupiter’s moons. 
Image Credit: Airbus Defense and Space.

Artist’s impression of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) near Jupiter and one of its moons, Europa. 
Credit: ESA/AOES

SPACEX's Mission Proposal

SpaceX’s newly revealed Interplanetary Transit System will make travel to Mars,
 and other destinations in our Solar System, possible.
 Credit: SpaceX
 

Now less than one year (scheduled April 2023) until the projected launch date, ESA’s JUICE mission
 is in the final phases of development. The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE)
 is now fully built with all ten instruments integrated into the spacecraft bus.
 Next comes all-up testing in a full flight configuration.

Artist concept of JUICE, a Jupiter moons orbiter mission.
 Credit: ESA

Juice mission has entered its final phase of development, with the spacecraft
 moving to an @Airbus Defence and Space facility in Toulouse, France,
 for the next round of testing. The spacecraft has been fully integrated,
 and these tests will be done in full flight configuration, as 
 Juice is scheduled for launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, in April 2023.

The Juice mission is a perfect example of collaboration between several
 national space agencies and European industry. Its objective is to explore
 the gas giant Jupiter, its environment, and three of its moons: Europa, 
 Callisto and Ganymede. By studying this planetary system, ESA hopes to 
 learn more about the icy worlds around Jupiter and the origins and 
 possibility of life in our Universe
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From ESA: The moons of Jupiter: What will Juice discover

Arianespace launches the Ariane 5 rocket carrying the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter 
Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) to the Jupiter system from ELA-3 at Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.

The Ariane 5 rocket used is the Ariane 5 ECA+ rocket and this is the 116th Ariane 5 mission. 

TIMESTAMPS:  
00:00 - T-Minus 10 seconds
00:12 - Engine Ignition & Liftoff 
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This animation shows the journey of the JUICE spacecraft to Jupiter. The proposed trajectory of JUICE 
is traced as a white line beginning inside Earth's orbit (shown in blue). By following the trajectory,
 it is possible to appreciate the gravity-assist strategy—a sequence of flybys of Earth, Venus, Earth,
 Mars, and again Earth—that is used during the 88-month cruise phase of the mission.

As JUICE starts its first elliptical solar orbit, its distance to the Sun decreases.
 This results in an increase in speed—according to Kepler’s second law of planetary
 motion—and the spacecraft overtakes Earth. During this first orbit, JUICE has maximum 
 speed at perihelion, when it is closest to the Sun, but loses speed as it approaches aphelion.

By the time the first solar orbit is complete, Earth has caught up with JUICE and the first 
gravity-assist manoeuvre can be performed. At this point, the spacecraft is deflected towards
 Venus (whose orbit is shown in yellow) and it falls in the direction of the Sun, increasing speed.
 Crucially, each planetary flyby also causes orbital angular momentum to be transferred from 
 the planet to the spacecraft. The acquisition of planetary angular momentum causes JUICE 
 to further increase speed and is the key to the flight strategy. At launch, JUICE will
 not have sufficient fuel for a direct transit to Jupiter and therefore a series of planetary
 flybys is essential to allow the spacecraft to incrementally gain enough energy to reach its destination.

After passing Venus, JUICE makes subsequent flybys of Earth, Mars (whose orbit is depicted in red),
 and Earth again before its rendezvous with Jupiter in October 2029. The animation ends at the 
 Jupiter orbit insertion point, so only the first set of gravity-assist manoeuvres that have
 been choreographed by ESA flight dynamics experts are shown.

The acronym JUICE stands for JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. The main goals of the mission are to explore
 the habitable zone around Jupiter, and to study the Jupiter system as an archetype of gas giants.
 To achieve its scientific objectives JUICE will fly past the three icy moons, Callisto, Europa,
 and Ganymede, and characterise the Jovian system, the planet, and its magnetosphere, before being 
 inserted into orbit around Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.

The scenario foreseen for a June 2022 launch of JUICE on an Ariane 5, from Kourou in French Guiana, is as follows:

The first Earth flyby will be at a distance of 12 700 km in May 2023;
JUICE will fly past Venus at a distance of 9500 km in October 2023;
the next Earth flyby will be the closest, at 1950 km in September 2024;
then JUICE will fly past Mars at a distance of 1100 km in February 2025;
before the final flyby, which will be 3700 km from Earth in November 2026.

JUICE will arrive at Jupiter in October 2029.

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The Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Aden are prominent in this Earth snapshot from the JMC1 camera
 on the European Space Agency's Juice probe, captured a half-hour after launch on April 14, 2023.
 Credit: ESA / Juice / JMC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Initial Flexing of the radar antennas credit ESA

OVER a cloudy Ocean. Credit:ESA

Juice's Rasar Anteena stowed Credit:ESA

 first ‘stop’ on the way to Jupiter will be a novel lunar-Earth gravity assist flyby in August 2024:
 a flyby of the Moon followed 1.5 days later by Earth 
 Credit ESA

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist.
 Flight controllers will guide the spacecraft past the Moon and then Earth itself, ‘braking’ the spacecraft.
 This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via Venus on it's way to Jupiter. 

Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter
 is on average ‘just’ 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice's journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.

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Mars is the place that most of our spacecraft, landers and rovers are studying, searching for any evidence 
that life ever existed somewhere else in the Solar System.
But talk to planetary scientists, and they’re just as excited about the ocean worlds of the Solar System;
 the moons, asteroids, dwarf planets and Kuiper Belt objects where there could be vast oceans of liquid water
 under thick shells of ice.  
The perfect environment for life to thrive. 
We’ve only had tantalizing hints that these oceans are there, but NASA is building a spacecraft
 that will study one of these worlds in detail: the Europa Clipper. And they’re not the only ones. 
 The European Space Agency is building their own mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE).

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This composite visible-light image taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft on Nov. 3, 2019, 
shows a new cyclone at Jupiter's south pole has joined five other cyclones to create a hexagonal shape
 around a large single cyclone.
 (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)

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