Juno Jupiter orbit animation

Find out more at and This animation depicts the orbit of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter in 2016 and 2017. Over about 15 months, Juno makes 33 orbits around the giant planet’s poles, coming to within 3100 miles (5000 kilometers) of Jupiter’s cloud tops every 11 days. The view in this sequence shows Juno’s successive passes around Jupiter without regard for the planet’s rotation. In reality, Jupiter rotates every 10 hours, and Juno’s orbit is timed so