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“Since its first in 2016, has delivered one revelation after another about the inner workings of this massive . With the extended mission, we will answer fundamental questions that arose during Juno’s prime mission while reaching beyond the to explore Mission Juno: Extended & Expanded ’s and largest .” by the numbers —SwRI’s Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator “The Juno team will start tackling a breadth of science historically required of flagships. This represents an efficient and innovative advance for NASA’s exploration strategy.” — Lori Glaze, Division Director, NASA HQ primary mission

Investigate Jupiter’s origins, interior, extended mission and Investigation of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere and , dilute core, magnetic LAUNCH: August 5, 2011 ARRIVAL: July 2016 features being sheared by Jupiter’s zonal jets; flybys of , and ; observation PRIMARY MISSION ENDS: July 2021 of the distant boundaries of the magnetosphere; and the first ’s rings

MISSION STARTS: August 2021 MISSION ENDS: September 2025

34 Science 42 Additional Orbits Flybys over the Great Blue 6 Spot, a Magnetic Enigma ST Detailed Exploration of 19 Atmospheric 1 Jupiter’s Faint Rings ST Spacecraft Equipped 1 with a Vault FLYBYS

Titanium Mapping of 400 ST POUND Electronics Vault 1 Europa’s Shell Thickness 3 EUROPA FLYBYS 29 Science Sensors on 11 Instruments Measurement ST of Space Search for 1 GANYMEDE FLYBYS ST Weathering 2 IO FLYBYS 1 Io’s Global on an Icy Solar Panels Spanning 66 11 Magma 3 FEET Moon

18 SPRING 2021 IMAGES COURTESY NASA/JPL/DLR/JPL-CALTECH D024769