Aerospace Seminar

Peering down through the clouds and deep into Jupiter's atmosphere, Juno reveals fundamental processes of the formation and early evolution of our solar system. Using a solar powered, spinning spacecraft in a highly elliptical polar orbit skimming within 3000 miles of the cloud tops, Juno avoids Jupiter's highest radiation regions. Juno's scientific payload includes a dual frequency gravity/radio science system, a six wavelength microwave radiometer for atmospheric sounding and composition, a magnetometer, plasma detectors,  energetic particle detectors, a radio/plasma wave experiment, an ultraviolet imager/spectrometer, an infrared imager, and a wide-field color camera to provide the first views of Jupiter's poles. Juno launched August 5, 2011, arrives at Jupiter July 5, 2016, and finishes the science measurements and deorbits into Jupiter in October, 2017.