NASA Spacecraft:JUNO Reaches Jupiter

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Ducking through intense belts of violent radiation as it skimmed over the clouds of Jupiter at 130,000 miles per hour, NASA’s Juno spacecraft claimed its spot in the orbit of the solar system’s largest planet.

It cost $1.1 billion for Juno embark on this 5 Year historical mission, and the moment was one that NASA scientists and space enthusiasts had eagerly — and anxiously — anticipated.

Cheers erupted at the mission operations center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., which is managing Juno.