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NASA’s Juno Probe

Kumari Sonali

NASA’s Juno Probe

New findings from NASA’s Juno probe provide a fuller picture of how widespread the lava lakes are on Jupiter’s moon Io.

  • JUNO is an acronym for Jupiter Near-Polar Orbiter.
  • It is a NASA spacecraft designed to orbit the planet Jupiter.
  • Juno was launched by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 5, 2011.
  • The Juno spacecraft initially embarked on a 5-year journey to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter.
  • Main Goal is to earn more about Jupiter’s origins and how the planet has changed.
  • Since it arrived at Jupiter in 2016, it has been probing beneath the dense, forbidding clouds encircling the giant planet – the first orbiter to peer so closely.
  • Juno orbits Jupiter every 11 days in a highly elliptical orbit (4,400 by 2,700,000 km [2,700 by 1,700,000 miles]) over the planet’s poles.
  • It is solar-powered.
  • Though Juno’s primary mission wrapped in July 2021, it’s been granted an extended mission that’s expected to end in 2025.
  • During the extended mission, Juno is exploring even more of the Jupiter system, including some of the planet’s most intriguing moons: Ganymede, Europa, and Io. Juno will also investigate Jupiter’s atmosphere and rings in greater detail.

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