05-07-2016 10:08 via seattletimes.com

Jupiter has new visitor — a solar-powered spacecraft

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Soaring over Jupiter’s poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system’s largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops. The final leg of the five-year voyage ended Monday when the solar-powered Juno spacecraft fired its main rocket engine and gracefully slipped into orbit around Jupiter. Mission controllers […]
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