welcome to Jupiter the largest planet in
our solar system 300 times more massive
than Earth if it doesn't look impressive
from this distance
well just wait we're cruising with
nasa's juno spacecraft look around you
can find Jupiter Juno and the Sun
now we're flying with Juno during one of
its more than 30 orbits of Jupiter
junos main mission is to learn more
about how Jupiter formed and how the
planet works from the outside in all we
can see now are the tops of the clouds
but junos sensitive instruments can look
deeper beneath the clouds and churning
storms
speaking of storms don't miss the Great
Red Spot a swirling crimson colored
vortex twice as wide as Earth junos
orbit takes it over the poles and just
3,000 miles above Jupiter's clouds
closer than any other spacecraft has
come before these Close Encounters
allowed juno to map Jupiter's gravity
magnetic field and water turn to see two
views of juno in regular and x-ray
vision the three panels are solar arrays
each about 30 feet long
Juno would just fit inside a
professional basketball court
Jupiter is so far from the Sun that
sunlight here is 25 times weaker than a
dearth see the saucer shaped antenna on
top that's the main way we communicate
with Juno below the antenna is the vault
the titanium box to protect junos
sensitive electronics now you're inside
the x-ray view of juno look for the
round blue and green tanks they hold
rocket fuel to help juno adjust course
when needed
look up and see the honeycomb structure
of the main antenna
below the antennae are multi colored
boxes which are electronics in the vault
looking down you'll see the belle of the
main rocket engine
and while there are no astronauts
onboard juno carries three lego
minifigures made of aluminum the Roman
god Jupiter the goddess juno and the
famous astronomer Galileo who in 1610
became the first explorer to turn a
telescope toward Jupiter what Galileo
saw through a telescope we will explore
up close with Juno
learn more about the mission at nasa.gov
slash Juno and mission juno.com w RI dot
edu