Juno Spacecraft Enters Jupiter's Realm

NASA's Juno spacecraft is now in Jupiter's backyard. Juno, which is scheduled to begin orbiting the giant planet on Monday (July 4), entered Jupiter's sphere of influence last week, mission team members said. "We've just crossed the boundary into Jupiter's home turf," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement today (June 30).