Juno spacecraft flies 2,000 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops

According to the Daily Mail, its size is about 2,050 miles (3,300 kilometers) above Jupiter’s colorful cloud tops, and it was traveling about 131,000 miles per hour (210,000 kilometers per hour) relative to the planet.

See ELISA in statement: “Animated Sequencing Using Raw JunoCam Image Data,” Publicly available images on NASA’s Juno mission web page.

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It was traveling many times as fast as the Apollo missions in the 1960s and 1970s to the moon.

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Planet Earth was in planet Earth on August 5, 2011.