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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 Dr. Michelle Thaller explains the goals and risks, as the agency prepares to put its Juno probe into orbit around Jupiter, in hopes of revealing how the giant planet was formed. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
NASA releases the first images of Jupiter taken by its Juno spacecraft almost two months after its arrival in orbit around the biggest planet in the solar system. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)
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's probe Juno just completed a 1.7 million mile journey to Jupiter. It also completed a Joke 400 years in the making.