[BenLurkin]

This annotated color view of Jupiter and its four largest moons -- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto -- was taken by the JunoCam camera on NASA's Juno spacecraft on June 21, 2016, at a distance of 6.8 million miles (10.9 million kilometers) from Jupiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

[Talisker]

“Jupiter is the Rosetta Stone of our solar system,” says Bolton. “It is by far the oldest planet...

[Delta 21]

Arent you still advising on matters of orbital insertion?

[Delta 21]

Scientists think that the Earth is 4.54 billion years old. Coincidentally, this is the same age as the rest of the planets in the Solar System, as well as the Sun. Of course, it’s not a coincidence; the Sun and the planets all formed together from a diffuse cloud of hydrogen billions of years ago.

Pesky details.

[faithhopecharity]

can the next one carry Obama?

[radu]

Cool! I didn’t know about this one.

Looking forward to keeping up with it and seeing the images it sends back.

[blueplum]

guess who’s on board?! Lego people!

http://www.pe.com/articles/lego-806585-jupiter-juno.html

[samtheman]

Signals traveling at the speed of light take 10 minutes to reach Earth.

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If Juno can send signals to earth in 10 minutes, those signals are going at least 3.5 times the speed of light.

I guess Universe Today is getting its astronomy from the writers of Star Wars, where a parsec is a unit of time.