Juno
Juno is on a mission set by NASA to investigate the largest planet in our Solar System, Jupiter. The spacecraft’s aims include determining the composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere, map Jupiter’s magnetic and gravity fields as well as investigating the auroras, temperature and cloud motion of Jupiter. Juno was lunched in 2011 arrived at Jupiter five years later. Before its deorbit into Jupiter in 2021, Juno hopes to provide insights into the origin and evolution of giant planets such as Jupiter.
So long Juno, and thanks for all the pics
This July, Juno ends its two-year mission to study and photograph Jupiter. We look back over some of the incredible images that have transformed our understanding of the Solar System’s biggest planet.
First Juno results already challenge our understanding of Jupiter
Measurements suggest Jupiter's core may be fluffy rather than dense and that its magnetic field is much stronger than previously thought.
Jupiter emissions sound like the stuff of nightmares
As Halloween approaches, Juno scientists release audio of Jupiter aurora that sounds like a wraith death choir straight from the depths of Hell.
Extraordinary new compounds could exist in gas giants
Scientists use advanced computer modelling systems to establish molecular structure of planets like Uranus and Neptune with incredible results.
What will we learn from the Juno mission?
As NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrives at the Solar System’s largest planet, we investigate what it will discover about Jupiter.
Jupiter ‘Northern Lights’ caused by solar storms
Chandra X-Ray Observatory spots aurora eight times brighter than normal and hundreds of times more energetic than those on Earth.