OTD In Space – August 5: Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter - video Dailymotion

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On Aug. 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system.   The robotic spacecraft lifted off on an Atlas 5 rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and spent the next five years making the 1.74-billion-mile trek to Jupiter. Since it arrived in Jupiter's orbit in 2016, Juno has taken the most amazing photos of Jupiter anyone has ever seen! But it has also taken plenty of scientific measurements to study Jupiter's composition, magnetic fields, weather patterns and more.

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00:00On this day in space. In 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a mission

00:06to study Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. The robotic spacecraft

00:11lifted off on an Atlas V rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force

00:14Station and spent the next five years making the 1.74 billion mile trek to

00:18Jupiter. Since it arrived in Jupiter's orbit in 2016, Juno has taken the most

00:23amazing photos of Jupiter anyone has ever seen. But it has also taken plenty

00:27of scientific measurements to study Jupiter's composition, magnetic fields,

00:31weather patterns, and more. And that's what happened on this day in space.

OTD In Space – August 5: Juno Spacecraft Launches to Jupiter

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