NASA’s Juno spacecraft was designed to help us explore Jupiter and analyse the planet to assess how giant planets like it help with the formation of other planets.
It’s thought that by studying Jupiter scientists will be able to better understand how our solar system formed. Juno originally launched back in 2011 and arrived in Jupiter’s orbit several years later in the middle of 2016.
Since then it has been used to study all sorts of things from the planet’s gravitational fields to water and wind presence in the atmosphere. That data is being studied and analysed and has helped form new theories about the planet.
It has also resulted in some incredible images, not just of the planet itself but its surrounding moons too. We’ve collected some of the most interesting for you to enjoy.
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