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The Juno spacecraft did not take all the images it was supposed to during a flyby of Jupiter on January 22. NASA says it will look into the problem. Juno is an orbiter that launched to Jupiter ...
For nine years, a spacecraft known as the Juno orbiter has divided its time between observing the gas giant of Jupiter and studying its moons, including Io. And on its third flyby of the celestial ...
NASA’s Juno orbiter has returned its latest batch of images of giant Jupiter, which are as impressive as ever. Despite suffering from radiation damage earlier this year, its JunoCam camera ...
The volcanic world of Jupiter's moon Io can be seen in extraordinary detail in new images beamed from NASA’s Juno orbiter after its most recent flyby. The encounter was Juno's second with Io ...
The Southwest Research Institute-led mission team of NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft executed a deep-space move in December 2023 to repair its JunoCam imager to capture photos of the Jovian ...
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno orbiter after the camera returned to normal operation following an issue that occurred during its Jan. 22 ...
NASA is scouring engineering data taken by the orbiter's JunoCam in order to understand why the majority of images from the spacecraft were not acquired. The missing data is from Juno's most ...
When the robotic Juno orbiter zoomed past Io in December, it was the closest flyby of the moon since the Galileo mission over 20 years ago.
Juno, an "orbiter," launched Aug. 5, 2011, and arrived at Jupiter in 2016 to explore the Jovian System, according to NASA's webpage dedicated to the mission and the craft.
The Juno spacecraft is expected to make another close flyby on February 3, 2024, in which the orbiter will once again come within 930 miles of the volcanic surface.
NASA's robotic Juno spacecraft is delivering the fresh data on Io with a series of flybys, each getting closer to Jupiter's volcanic moon until a pair of close-up encounters at a range of less ...