NASA’s Juno probe, launched in 2011 to study Jupiter and its moons, may already be inactive. While the mission has been extended multiple times since orbiting Jupiter in 2016, the agency has not officially confirmed whether the spacecraft is still operational
The south polar region of Juputer’s Moon 10, captured by Juno. PIC COURTESY/NASA
NASA’s spinning spacecraft studying the satellites of the solar system’s largest celestial body (aside from the sun), may already be switched off, but the space agency won’t say. The Juno probe launched in 2011 and entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016. NASA has extended Juno’s mission multiple times and that sell-by date has now passed.
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