Juno sends Jupiter images home

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Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has sent back some of the first pictures of Jupiter’s North Pole.

The pictures took around one and a half days to be sent back to Earth after Juno completed its first fly-by of the planet.

This is the first time we have been able to see the North Pole on Jupiter. Previously, we had only been able to see Jupiter’s South Pole from pictures sent back from the Cassini spacecraft mission in 2000.

Jupiter’s North Pole is blue in colour, and quite stormy.

As well as taking pictures, all eight of Juno’s science instruments were busy collecting lots of important new data about the planet, including radio waves and infrared cameras which show how hot and cold the North Pole is.

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Shem Banbury is the Editor of Kiwi Kids News and is the Deputy Principal at Mount Maunganui Intermediate. In his spare time, he likes to train and compete in triathlons, play cricket and spend time with his family.

9 Responses

Kayleb says:

September 7, 2016 at 9:31 am

Wow that is amazing 🙂
chloe says:

September 7, 2016 at 10:05 am

that is amazing
Gabsie says:

September 7, 2016 at 10:08 am

Wow that’s awesome.
234-321-ERROR says:

September 7, 2016 at 1:41 pm

Wow thats amazeing someday we will be on diffrent planets.
Fjyfhhfhntc says:

September 7, 2016 at 5:03 pm

This is pretty cool.
Jdog says:

September 7, 2016 at 9:31 pm

If I watched the video before I read the text, I believe I would think that was a Movie Trailer! XD!
Tigersrock says:

September 14, 2016 at 2:28 pm

Wow! I think that is amazing! I can’ t wait to see some photos of jupiter
banana's says:

September 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm

That is awesome news and is so so so cool
DENNANZ says:

June 14, 2021 at 1:43 pm

this is insane