Mission Simulation
This computer generated animation depicts the science goals addressed by the Juno mission. The computer animation shows the Juno spacecraft being launched from Earth, separation from the upper stage of the launch vehicle, cruise to Jupiter and go into an elliptic orbit around the giant planet. As the spacecraft with its large solar panels spins, its instruments capture data on Jupiter as the planet comes into view of the instruments once per spin.
The microwave instruments in particular probes beneath the clouds of Jupiter (depicted in the animation by approaching Jupiter and seemingly diving into its cloudy atmosphere) by measuring the energy coming from the deep interior at different wavelengths that will help reveal its interior structure and offer clues to its formation (depicted in the animation by symbols as an analogy to the Rosetta Stone) and thereby the formation of the solar system from the solar nebula.
