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            US Space Probe Sends First Picture of Jupiter from Orbit

   by VOA News

   NASA'S deep space probe Juno has sent back its[1] first image of the
   planet Jupiter since arriving at the interstellar gas giant.

   The U.S. space agency released a picture Tuesday showing Jupiter
   surrounded by three of its four largest moons -- Io, Europa and
   Ganymeade.

   Juno entered orbit around Jupiter last week after a five-year, 2.8
   billion kilometer journey. Ground controllers deliberately kept the
   probe's camera -- dubbed the JunoCam -- and other instruments shut down
   as a precaution as Juno passed through Jupiter's extreme radiation
   environment.

   ''The probe will spend the next 20 months studying the fifth -- and
   biggest -- planet in our solar system, to help scientists determine the
   foundations of our solar system, and to search for signs of a solid
   surface beneath its cloud-covered atmosphere.

   The JunoCam is expected to send its first high-resolution images of
   Jupiter late next month, when the probe makes its next closest pass
   across the planet.

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References

   1. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/junos-post-arrival-view
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