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The incredible things that had to go just right for Juno to reach Jupiter

“We just did the hardest thing NASA has ever done,” said Scott Bolton, the lead investigator on the Juno mission. After a five-year journey, the spacecraft Juno managed to enter the perfect orbit around Jupiter. Soon, it will start revealing secrets of the solar system’s biggest and most unchanged planet.

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