Facts about Juno Mission

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   Juno's microwave radiometer instrument penetrates Jupiter's clouds up to 400 kilometers deep, revealing water content and atmospheric composition invisible to optical cameras.

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   Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a storm larger than Earth, has been shrinking since Juno's observations began, narrowing from approximately 9,000 miles wide in 2016 to roughly 7,000 miles by 2024.

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   At closest approach, Juno flies within 2,600 miles of Jupiter's cloud tops, making it one of the fastest spacecraft ever built at speeds exceeding 130,000 miles per hour.

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   Juno's radiation vault, a 400-pound titanium chamber, protects sensitive electronics from Jupiter's intense radiation belts that produce doses equivalent to 100 million dental X-rays annually.

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   Juno's primary science mission lasted five years, with the spacecraft completing 37 orbits of Jupiter between 2016 and 2021 while studying the planet's magnetic field and atmosphere.

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   Launched on August 5, 2011, NASA's Juno spacecraft reached Jupiter in July 2016 after traveling 1.74 billion miles through space.

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