Juno is a NASA space probe sent to study Jupiter from orbit, launched from Cape Canaveral on an Atlas V rocket. It was the second mission in the agency's New Frontiers programme. After a journey of five years, including a gravity-assist flyby of Earth, it entered a long polar orbit around Jupiter. Powered by large solar panels, it carries instruments to measure the planet's gravity and magnetic field, its atmosphere and its interior structure, as well as a public-participation camera, JunoCam. Its results include evidence of a diffuse core, deep atmospheric structures and clusters of cyclones at the poles. The mission was extended to include close flybys of the moons Ganymede, Europa and Io.
Before and after
- 22 July 2011Creation of Kotlin
- 22 July 20112011 Norway attacks
- 23 July 2011Death of Amy Winehouse
- August 20112011 England riots
- 5 August 2011Launch of Juno
- 9 August 2011Release of Siri
- 17 August 2011Discovery of HD 85512 b
- from 21 August 2011 to 4 September 2011Hurricane Irene
- 7 September 20112011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster
More in Universe & space
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- 5 September 1977Launch of Voyager 1
- 4 March 1979Discovery of Metis
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
- 25 December 2021Launch of James Webb Space Telescope
The era
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