20 SUMMER 2018 probing theweather layer 30to 45milesbelow Jupiter’s cloudtops. Auroral captures Mapper light emerging from deepinsideJupiter, magnetic field. Data collected by thespacecraft’s InfraRed Jovian tions ofanextraterrestrial dynamo, theengine creating Jupiter’s that dominate theplanet’s polarregions, andthefirstdetailedindica Juno scientists discovered andanticyclones denselypackedcyclones from WithinHeat 2. 1. the planet’s radiation belts. powerful scraping thecloudtops, deepinside mission to make repeated excursions nine science instruments, isthefirst July 4,2016.Juno, withitssuite of spacecraft entered Jupiter on orbit and 1.7billionmiles, NASA’s Juno After anodyssey ofalmostfive years Arrival at aColossus - 3. relevant to the mission. include Jupiter observations Juno scientists. GAVRT data telescope incollaboration with science withalarge radio letsstudentsproject doreal TelescopeRadio (GAVRT) The Goldstone Apple Valley The Ultimate Classroom highlights from years at Jupiter years led by SwRI’s Dr. ScottBolton. highlights from theJunomission, secrets ever since. Here are 10 and hasbeenrevealing Jupiter’s ofPlanets inJuly2016 the King NASA’s Junospacecraftarrived at 4 history of space exploration. history stunning imagesinthe include someofthemost the visualdata. The results processing andenhancing JunoCam takes, butalsoin planning what images general publicnotonlyin Juno team enliststhe deep space mission,the first aremarkable for a In public outreach instrument. JunoCam, a Juno carries Science, Art Meet .

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AUSTIN/JPL-CALTECH/MSSS/BETSY ASHER HALL/ challenges current theories. and discovered that variability giant planet’s deepatmosphere tropical belt.Juno provided thefirstlookinto a near theequator persists farbeneath theclouds, similarto Earth’s penetrate whileanewlydiscovered to adepthof3000km, band revealed surprises. The beltsandzones were discovered to dense, interactive clusters. Jupiter’s iconic beltsandzones also covered in swirling thesize ingiant nearly ofEarth, cyclones works findings:Jupiter’s inside out.Amongtheearly polesare didn’tIt takelongfor abouthow Junoto theories Jupiter turn A Whole New Jupiter 8. 5. GERVASIO ROBLES/GERALD EICHSTÄDT/ SEÁN DORAN/ASI/INAF/JIRAM/JUNOCAM penetrate about200milesinto theplanet’s atmosphere. system’s mostfamousstorm appearsto have roots that iconic feature penetrates well below theclouds. The solar over Jupiter’s Great SpotinJuly2017indicate Red that this Data by collected itsfirstpass theJunospacecraft during RunsDeep Beauty 6. in Jupiter’s deepatmosphere. giant storm appearsto float between layers massive oval, crimson andshowed that the veinous cloudswovenof dark, through a spot, andJunoCam imagesrevealed atangle over July2017,Junopasseddirectly In the although lately, itappearsto beshrinking. possibly existed for more than350years, First spotted in1830,thestorm has Spotis1.3timesaswideEarth. Red 3,2017),Jupiter’s(as ofApril Great 10,159mileswide Measuring theSpot Spotting 9 7 . 10. healthy andoperating normally. The spacecraft andallitsinstruments are information onhow thegiant planetworks. atmospheric storms for years, providing Jupiter’s giant magnetosphere andmonitor The larger willallow orbit Junoto explore of theoriginally conceived of14days. orbits around Jupiter. instead orbits Junoisin53-day provides for anadditional41months inorbit Juno’s science operations until July2021. This June,In NASAapproved anupdate to extend Innings Extra . active thenpreviouslyactive thought. the atmosphere isfulloflighting, muchmore mostly around thepoles. Junodiscovered neartheequator; onJupiter, strikes Earth it’s different.very For example, mostlightning on otherways, In like what we it’s seeonEarth. clouds. someways, In thelightning ismuch Powerful boltsoflightning light upJupiter’s ChargedA Highly Atmosphere intense aurora, astheyare at Earth. processes are notthesource ofthemost Earth’s aurora, butat Jupiter, these physicalobserved processes that drive detectors, scientists particle energetic plasma instrument andAPL-led at night. Using data from theSwRI-led top ofJupiter’s polesappearsto off turn Juno discovered theaurora at thevery the SwRI-led ultraviolet spectrograph, ways theresearchers expected. Using planet’s auroras powerful —onlynotin regions that contribute to thegiant energy over swirling Jupiter’s polar massive amounts of Juno hasobserved Powerful Auroras, Powerful Mysteries