After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, our Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 11:53 p.m. EDT Monday, July 4. Juno captured this unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. Details: http://go.nasa.gov/

Did You Know?Juno cracked the code on Europa’s ice! NASA’s Juno mission has officially measured the ice shell of Jupiter’s moon, Europa. Using microwave frequencies to peer miles beneath the surface, scientists found an average thickness of 18 miles. While this thick ice acts as a protective shield for the ocean below, it also reveals just how difficult it might be for surface nutrients to reach any life forms swimming in the deep. #NASA, #JunoMission, #Europa, #Jupiter, #SpaceDiscovery, #Astron