PIA13931: Juno Marches On
 Mission:  Juno
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Product Size:  2395 x 3600 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  Lockheed Martin Space
 Other  
Information: 
JPL News Release 2011-092
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA13931.tif (25.9 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA13931.jpg (1.172 MB)

Click on the image above to download a moderately sized image in JPEG format (possibly reduced in size from original)

Original Caption Released with Image:

This image of the Juno spacecraft was taken as the vehicle completed its thermal vacuum chamber testing. In the image, a technician is attaching the lifting equipment in preparation for hoisting the 1,588-kilogram (3,500-pound) spacecraft out of the chamber. Prominent in the photo is one of three large, black, square solar array simulators, which reproduced the thermal properties of Juno's large solar arrays. The actual solar arrays Juno will use to power the spacecraft during its voyage to, and its exploration of, Jupiter have already been shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The image was taken on March 13, 2011.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute at San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is building the spacecraft. The Italian Space Agency in Rome is contributing an infrared spectrometer instrument and a portion of the radio science experiment. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more information about Juno, visit http://www.nasa.gov/juno.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Lockheed Martin

Image Addition Date:
2011-03-23