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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Completes Fifth Science Pass of Jupiter
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Updated May 19, 2017, at 1:30 p.m. PDT

NASA's Juno mission accomplished a close flyby of Jupiter on May 19, successfully
completing its fifth science orbit.

All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that is now being returned to Earth.
Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on July 11, 2017, taking
it over Jupiter's Great Red Spot. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

May 18, 2017

Juno Scientists Prepare for Fifth Science Pass of Jupiter

NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fifth science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, May 18, at 11 p.m. PDT (Friday, May
19, 2 a.m. EDT and 6:00 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined as the
point in Juno's orbit when it is closest to the planet's center), the spacecraft will have logged 63.5 million miles (102 million kilometers)
in Jupiter's orbit and will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above
the planet's cloud tops.

Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and arrived
in orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. During its mission of exploration, Juno soars low over the planet's cloud tops -- as close as about 2,100
miles (3,400 kilometers) During these flybys, Juno is probing beneath
the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and studying its auroras to learn
more about the planet's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers
Program managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,
Alabama, for the Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. JPL is a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California.

More information on the Juno mission is available at:

https://www.nasa.gov/juno

http://missionjuno.org

The public can follow the mission on Facebook and Twitter at:

http://www.facebook.com/NASAJuno

http://www.twitter.com/NASAJuno

News Media Contact
DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-393-9011
agle@jpl.nasa.gov

Dwayne Brown / Laurie Cantillo
NASA Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1726 / 202-358-1077
dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov / laura.l.cantillo@nasa.gov

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