NASA to Provide a Glimpse of Juno’s Progress

NASA will hold a virtual briefing at 3 p.m. EDT on Oct. 28 to discuss the latest results from the agency’s Juno spacecraft. The science team will reveal new findings that provide the first 3D look at how Jupiter’s roiling atmosphere operates underneath the top layers of clouds, and how these revelations offer insight into the atmospheres of giant planets elsewhere in the universe.

The event will take place from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages the Juno mission. It will be livestreamed on NASA Television, the NASA app, the agency’s website, NASA YouTube and Twitter.

Juno has been orbiting and monitoring Jupiter since 2016. The spacecraft is now in an extended mission designed to expand on discoveries already made about Jupiter’s interior structure, internal magnetic field, atmosphere and magnetosphere. It will also involve close passes of Jupiter’s north polar cyclones, future flybys of the moons Europa and Io, and the first exploration of the faint rings encircling the planet.

JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the Juno mission. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built and operates the spacecraft.