NASA’s Juno spacecraft has been spinning through space on its way to Jupiter for five years and 445 million miles,and now it’s less than 10 hours away from entering the gas giant’s orbit—the equivalent of a single rotation of Jupiter. whether all goes well, scientists will finally be able to memorize what lies beneath Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere, or examine its impressive magnetosphere,and possibly determine the composition of its core.
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