Juno Spacecraft
摘要
The Juno mission was designed to gather in-depth information about Jupiter. It returned thousands of detailed images to Earth and a wealth of scientific information about Jupiter and its large moons. The spacecraft was still operating in polar orbit around Jupiter at the time of this writing in 2024. Juno entered orbit in July 2016, and it has completed the prime mission, which was a 5-year, 35-orbit information-collecting endeavor. Juno is presently on an extended mission, which is planned to last until 2025. Juno, in Roman mythology, was the long-suffering, feisty wife of the lord of the gods, Jupiter. The main goal of the Juno mission was to gather detailed information about Jupiter to further understand its formation. Jupiter, by far the largest planet in the solar system, had a profound influence on formation of other planets and ordering of their orbits. Understanding the formation of Jupiter, its makeup under the thick clouds, and what generates the strong magnetic field are questions important to those striving to learn about the formation of the solar system.