Scientists and officials preview NASA’s Juno spacecraft mission to explore the planet Jupiter in this news briefing detailing the orbit insertion maneuver on July 4.
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Juno dives over Jupiter’s cloud tops with main engine still offline
NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a high-speed pass less than 3,000 miles over Jupiter’s turbulent clouds Thursday, taking dozens of pictures, measuring radiation and plasma waves, and peering deep inside the planet’s atmosphere, but officials still have not cleared the orbiter’s main engine for a planned maneuver to position the probe in its intended science orbit.
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Water plumes on Europa detected by Galileo spacecraft
A review of data captured by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft as it orbited Jupiter in the 1990s indicates it likely flew through a plume of water vapor spewing from cracks in the surface of the moon Europa, providing independent evidence water is being released from a vast sub-surface ocean beneath its frozen crust, scientists said Monday.
