Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, after the RTG -powered Galileo orbiter, which orbited from 1995 to 2003.

Aug 5, 2011 · The Juno spacecraft, which entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first explorer to peer below the planet's dense clouds to answer questions about the gas giant itself …

NASA's Mission Juno is exploring Jupiter, seeking to unlock secrets of the giant planet and our solar system.

Nov 28, 2025 · The Juno mission is scheduled to last until 2025, when the space probe will be deliberately burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Juno is the second project in NASA ’s New …

Sep 3, 2025 · After enduring a five-year, 1.7 billion-mile journey from Earth, and evading showers of the most punishing radiation outside the Sun, Juno has provided breathtaking images and …

Juno is an unmanned NASA New Frontiers spacecraft. It studies the planet Jupiter from orbit. It is the first mission to an outer planet to use solar panel s for power instead of a radioisotope …

2 days ago · The Juno spacecraft, designed to study Jupiter's mysteries, faced a critical challenge: operating in the dim sunlight of the outer solar system. To address this, scientists …

Apr 29, 2025 · NASA’s Juno mission has gathered new findings after peering below Jupiter’s cloud-covered atmosphere and the surface of its fiery moon, Io.

Juno uses a spinning, solar-powered spacecraft in a highly elliptical polar orbit that avoids most of Jupiter’s high-radiation regions. Although the main spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin, …

Juno is the first space mission to operate a solar-powered spacecraft at Jupiter, and it is the farthest solar powered spacecraft from Earth.