Launching another camera isn’t exactly an option, considering the total costs of the Juno spacecraft and mission sit at $1.13 billion, and it’s not like there’s a camera repair shop on Jupiter. That ...

Using a technique called annealing, engineers were able to save a vital component on the Juno spacecraft - the camera.

Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the ...

Mission scientists "waited with bated breath" to see if their last-minute operation to save a spacecraft's camera hundreds of millions of miles away had worked.

An image of Io taken by Juno on Dec. 30. NASA / SwRI / MSSS The spacecraft will fly past Io again on February 3, coming again within 930 miles of the moon's surface. After that, NASA says the ...

Juno has shown that the volcano is still going, spewing a plume of gas and dust high above the night side of Io. Fresh from Jupiter, we have new views of its active moon Io, thanks to the # ...

Juno completed its closest flyby of Io on December 30, bringing 2023 to a close with exceptionally interesting data and breathtaking images. Juno images of Europa have also helped us learn more ...

The encounter was Juno's second with Io (pronounced EYE'-oh) after it first approached for a close-up view of the moon's rocky, fiery landscape on Dec. 30.

Much of this data was collected during Juno’s most recent flyby of Io on April 9, when it came within 3 and 4.3 miles (5 and 7 kilometers).

Juno is scheduled for a second close flyby of Io on February 3, in which the spacecraft will come within a distance of 930 miles (1,500 kilometers) from the moon’s surface.

On December 30, 2023, the Juno spacecraft flew within roughly 930 miles of the moon Io. The spacecraft’s JunoCam imager captured images of a red sphere dotted with volcanoes. CREDIT: NASA/SwRI/MSSS.

After its launch in 2011, the Juno probe arrived at the Jovian system in 2016 and has since been investigating Jupiter and its moons. The day after Sunday's close fly-by of Io will be an important ...