NASA's Juno Mission coming to end after 14 years
ST. LOUIS - NASA’s Juno Mission will soon be coming to an end.
Launched in 2011, the four-ton probe and its wide solar arrays arrived at Jupiter in 2016. Its mission? Look beneath the dense, forbidding clouds of the giant planet to answer questions about the origin and evolution of Jupiter, our solar system, and giant planets across the universe.
The spacecraft has found previously unseen vast storms swirling around Jupiter’s poles, active volcanoes and lakes of lava on the moon, Io, and answers to a decades-old question about winds on Jupiter.
Now, after an extended operation, its Mission is coming to an end in 2025.
Jupiter will soon have two new visitors, NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s Juice mission.
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