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NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft loops into orbit around Jupiter

First in-orbit images of Jupiter from NASA spacecraft

NASA'S Juno spacecraft sends its first in-orbit view of Jupiter, known to be the biggest planet in the solar system. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

NASA Staff Celebrate as Juno Successfully Enters Jupiter's Orbit

Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.

NASA's Juno probe nears Jupiter

Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, were listening for a series of tones on Monday night that will inform them whether the Juno spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver that will allow it to be pulled into orbit around Jupiter.