Juno Will Place Spacecraft In High Elliptical Polar Orbit
NASA is officially moving forward on a mission to conduct an
unprecedented, in-depth study of Jupiter. Called Juno, the mission
will be the first in which a spacecraft is placed in a highly
elliptical polar orbit around the giant planet to understand its
formation, evolution and structure. Underneath its dense cloud
cover, Jupiter safeguards secrets to the fundamental processes and
conditions that governed our early solar system.