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Juno is a spacecraft that is orbiting Jupiter. It was launched on August 5, 2011 and it made its first and last Earth flyby on October 9, 2013. This was the closest distance to Earth after launch, at only 559 km away from the surface. It entered Jupiter’s orbit on July 5, 2016. It was planned that Juno would make 37 orbits of Jupiter, though this was expanded later. Here is a list of the instruments Juno holds:

Juno continues to send data about Jupiter to Earth to this day.

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