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NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
But Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, a Juno team member and a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., recalls Bolton saying: “We can’t fly to Jupiter without a camera.” The mission may be all about sensing what’s below those clouds. By probing the radiation emitted by the spot’s churning gases and by measuring its gravitational pull, the Juno team realized it reached a depth of about 300 miles below the cloud tops —almost 55 times deeper than Mount Everest is tall. Its surface, an amalgam of burnt orange, sickly yellow and crimson hues, is covered in rocky cauldrons filled with lava, as well as volcanoes whose explosions propel magmatic matter into space.
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