CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers move the container holding NASA's Juno spacecraft onto a truck that will transport it to Astrotech's payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. to begin final preparations for launch. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. Juno is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Aug. 5. For more information visit, www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller
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KSC-2011-2808
Date Created
April 8, 2011
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KSC
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image
Location
Kennedy Space Center, FL