Spacecraft Juno nears planet orbit, but Harvard team may already have predicted part of what it will find

Thursday, June 30, 2016 - 18:01 in Astronomy & Space

In less than a week, the spacecraft Juno will arrive at Jupiter, the culmination of a five-year, billion-dollar journey. It's mission: to peer deep inside the gas giant and unravel its origin and evolution. One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Jupiter is how it generates its powerful magnetic field, the strongest in the solar system.

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