Geostationary Orbit

Juno’s First Light

Edit Slate 13 Jul 2016

The image above is the first one taken of Jupiter and its moons by the Juno spacecraft after achieving orbit last week* ... Even when we’re off to one side in our own orbit, seeing Jupiter from an angle, that angle is so small that Jupiter always looks essentially full to us ... Juno approached Jupiter “from the side”, catching up to it in its orbit around the Sun....

The Juno orbiter has sent back its first photo of Jupiter. And it’s awesome.

Edit Vox 13 Jul 2016

It entered orbit around Jupiter ... To survive, Juno had to sneak into orbit at a small opening near the poles, where the magnetism is weakest ... And NASA promises more pictures as Juno completes this orbit around the planet. To sneak past the radiation to get the shot, Juno had to be put on a highly eccentric (elliptical) orbit....

photo: Public Domain / NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon

This is an artist's concept of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani.

NASA's Juno sends back first view from Jupiter's orbit

Edit Mashable 13 Jul 2016

The first image from orbit was obtained from JunoCam on July 10 at 1.30 p.m. ET, when the spacecraft was 2.7 million miles from Jupiter on the outbound leg of its initial 53.5-day capture orbit, NASA says ... NASA's Juno probe is now orbiting Jupiter, aiming to solve space mysteries ... Take a peek! First pic from @NASAJuno in #Jupiter’s orbit! Close ......

NASA's Jupiter Probe Sends First Pics Of Planet From Orbit

Edit National Public Radio 13 Jul 2016

After entering orbit around Jupiter on July 4th, the spacecraft's camera, JunoCam, has begun to send images like the one above back to Earth ... After entering orbit around Jupiter on July 4th, the spacecraft's camera, JunoCam, has begun to send images like the one above back to Earth ... NASA has released the first picture of Jupiter taken since the Juno spacecraft went into orbit around the planet on July 4....

Juno sends first image back from Jupiter orbit

Edit Taipei Times 13 Jul 2016

JunoCam, the electronic photographer affixed to the NASA spacecraft that locked into orbit around Jupiter on Monday last week, has now met the bar set in the Instagram age — pictures or it did not happen. The images transmitted back to Earth after Juno began orbiting Jupiter confirm the beginning of the space probe’s 20-month mission around the solar system’s largest planet....

NASA’s Juno sends first groundbreaking snap of Jupiter

Edit New York Post 13 Jul 2016

NASA’s Juno probe has sent back the first images of the solar system’s largest planet since arriving in its orbit on July 4 ... Juno’s science instruments had been turned off for safety during its crucial 35-minute orbital-insertion burn after the probe’s nearly five-year journey through space ... Juno is now cruising away from Jupiter, toward the more distant parts of a highly elliptical, 53-day orbit, as part of the $1.1 billion mission....

Half a Jupiter is Still a Stunning Sight in First Juno Picture

Edit News Ledge 13 Jul 2016

The first picture in orbit that is. Juno snapped a series of pictures as it approached orbital insertion of the massive gas giant last month ... Juno was six days into its orbit around Jupiter, but still a staggering 4 million kilometers from the biggest planet in our solar system ... Callisto orbits a bit further out than these three and can’t be seen in this photo ... But this lengthy orbit won’t last long....

By Jove, it made it and Juno, it sent a picture

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Jul 2016

JunoCam, the electronic photographer affixed to the NASA spacecraft that locked into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, has now met the bar set in the Instagram age. The images transmitted back to Earth after Juno began orbiting Jupiter confirm the beginning of the space probe's 20-month mission around the solar system's largest planet....

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Shares First Stunning Picture Of Jupiter

Edit Huffington Post 13 Jul 2016

NASA has shared a composite of some of the first images taken by the Juno spacecraft currently in orbit around Jupiter ... Radiation surrounding Jupiter is so severe that NASA had to create an orbital path for the spacecraft that would see it make very fast, very low flybys in which it spends the absolute minimum amount of time being subjected to the high-energy particles....

What Do You Do With a Problem Like Space Debris?

Edit Slate 13 Jul 2016

There are thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth, moving at incredibly high speeds ... Two objects moving at 25,000 kph in different orbits can have a relative speed of several kilometers per second ... But if approved, the hope is that it will be tag, snag, and bag large pieces of orbital debris, then perform a de-orbit burn to drop them both into Earth’s atmosphere where they will burn up....

NASA's Juno spacecraft sends back first image of Jupiter and its moons

Edit CNN 13 Jul 2016

(CNN)NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter has returned its first image after being sent into orbit last week ... Its second-largest moon, Callisto, is not in sight. The Juno spacecraft entered Jupiter's orbit on July 4 and took the image around six days later ... Read More ... Aww snap. My first in-orbit view of #Jupiter ... Juno was launched in 2011, and is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter after Galileo, which orbited the planet from 1995-2003 ... ....

NASA's spacecraft captures first in-orbit view of Jupiter

Edit Press TV 13 Jul 2016

The space probe is now providing us with the first in-orbit Jupiter photo ... The spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit after a five-year journey....

Moon photobombs Earth again in new NASA image!

Edit Indian Express 13 Jul 2016

The images were captured by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a four-megapixel CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite orbiting one million miles from Earth ... This orbit intersects the lunar orbit about four times a year. However, depending on the relative orbital phases of the moon and DSCOVR, the moon appears between the spacecraft and Earth once or twice a year....

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