Solar Powered Jupiter bound JUNO lands at Kennedy Space Center for
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
Juno, NASA’s next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick off the final leg of launch preparations in anticipation of blastoff for Jupiter this summer. The huge solar-powered Juno.
by Ken Kremer on April 17, 2011
The Juno spacecraft passes in front of Jupiter in this artist’s depiction. Juno, the second mission in NASA’s New Frontiers program, is solar powered and will blast off for the largest planet in our solar system in August 2011 and investigate the origin and evolution of Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Juno, NASAs next big mission bound for the outer planets, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center to kick off the final leg of launch preparations in anticipation of blastoff for Jupiter this summer.
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