Juno update

Summary: After 5 years and 1.8 billion miles, the Juno spacecraft has made its first flyby of Jupiter. At only 2,500 miles above the cloud tops, this is the closest any spacecraft has come to the gas giant of our solar system.

One of the things that makes Juno exciting is the panoramic colour camera which allows for stunning images to be sent back in addition to data from its other instruments. 

Juno will make 35 further flybys in order to measure Jupiter's water content, magnetic fields, and to look for the possibility of a solid core. Will all of this new data, it is hoped that scientists will have a better idea of how the planets formed in the early solar system.

BBC News