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Planetary science

Brave new Jupiter

30 Jun 2016
Taken from the July 2016 issue of Physics World

With NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter arriving next week, researchers look to our local, ancient behemoth to figure out how planets form – including our own – as Stephen Ornes reports

Artistic impression of the Juno spacecraft, consisting of a central gold-hued structure from which emanate three symmetrical long rectangular solar-celled brown arms, positioned in front of Jupiter
Planetary science: Juno mission to Jupiter. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL)
For the last five years, NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been barrelling towards its final destination:

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