Guardian UK: 'Welcome to Jupiter': Nasa mission puts Juno in orbit after five-year journey - Arrival of the spacecraft prompted shouts of joy at Nasa’s jet propulsion lab, where scientists had been watching Juno’s progress with bated breath
After a five-year voyage across 1.8bn miles (2.8bn km), Nasa’s Juno spacecraft has reached Jupiter and successfully entered its orbit.
Braving intense radiation and a field of space rocks, the probe inched into the orbit of the largest planet in the solar system at 03.18 GMT.
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