So it did happen.
The Juno spacecraft really did reach Jupiter.
JunoCam, the electronic photographer affixed to the NASA spacecraft that locked into Jupiter’s orbit on July 4, has now met the bar set in the Instagram age. (Pics or it didn’t happen.)
The images transmitted back to Earth after Juno began orbiting Jupiter now confirm the beginning of the space probe’s 20-month mission around the solar system’s largest planet.
Until now, Juno’s nascent path around Jupiter had been tracked by signals it was sending back. But NASA on Tuesday released an image taken by the satellite on Sunday from a distance of 2.7 million miles; it even shows the Great Red Spot, though the famous storm has been shrinking in recent decades and may not be as great as it once was.
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