Anyone can sign in to the Southwest Research Institute’s Mission Juno website and suggest where the camera should be pointed and then vote on the choices. One planet farther out, at Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is being readied for what its managers have called the grand finale. If the engine shuts off prematurely, Juno might still end up in orbit, albeit in the wrong orbit. By the time engineers receive word the engine firing has begun, the engine should have already switched off, with the spacecraft in orbit. Then, for the first time in more than two decades, no NASA spacecraft will be orbiting any of the outer planets.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2016 06:46 UTC