Keywords: Juno, Jupiter, NASA With its scheduled arrival at the largest planetary inhabitant in our solar system on July 4, NASA’s Juno mission is now less than a month away from Jupiter. Now we are looking at extremely unlikely events that orbit insertion could throw at us,” Mr. Nybakken said. Giant Jupiter lies in the harshest radiation environment known, and Juno has been specially designed to safely navigate the brand new territory. The Juno mission was launched on August 5, 2011 with the primary aim of improving our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.

Source: The Hindu June 10, 2016 11:03 UTC