PIA25061: Five Years of Juno Orbits
 Target Name:  Jupiter
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Juno
 Spacecraft:  Juno
 Product Size:  3104 x 2414 pixels (w x h)
 Produced By:  SwRI
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA25061.tif (3.466 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA25061.jpg (369.7 kB)

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This diagram indicates the paths that NASA's Juno spacecraft took relative to Jupiter as the spacecraft repeatedly passed close by the giant planet over the course of five years, beginning in 2016, wrapping it in a dense net of observations ideally suited to mapping its magnetic field. Shown here are segments of the mission's first 32 high-inclination orbits, drawn from that part of each orbit passing very close to Jupiter, equally spaced in longitude. Juno has completed its first global mapping of the magnetic field, sampling it from pole to pole at about 11 degrees of separation in longitude between each orbit.

More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/John E. Connerney

Image Addition Date:
2021-12-17