Friday, August 5, 2011

Liftoff! Juno Sets Sail for Jupiter

Today the Juno probe managed a successful liftoff and is now heading towards Jupiter. It will certainly bring many interesting insights of this gas giant, like we have never seen it before. All the coverage around the mission to be found there: NASA website of the Juno Mission

The launch today, in case you missed to watch it live:


Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl77aJmuZtg


"NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spreads its solar wings". Full resolution. Source: spacecoalition.com.


A Juno mission overview by NASA:

Link & HD version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVNYLE5PFQ

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