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The Juno spacecraft returns to Earth about two years after launch for a flyby gravity assist maneuver. The Earth flyby gives Juno the boost in velocity it needs to coast all the way to Jupiter. Juno arrives at Jupiter in July 2016.

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The Juno spacecraft launched in August 2011. The spacecraft traveled around the Sun, to a point beyond the orbit of Mars where it fired its main engine a couple of times. These deep space maneuvers set up the Earth flyby maneuver that occurs approximately two years after launch. The Earth flyby gives Juno the boost in velocity it needs to coast all the way to Jupiter. Juno arrives at Jupiter in July 2016.

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The Juno spacecraft travels outward from the sun and inner solar system in this animation clip. The dusty material seen here is meant to represent the zodiacal dust, which originates from comets and from asteroid collisions and is mainly found between the sun and Jupiter. The dust is far more diffuse than is pictured here, but it does create a diffuse band of visible light across the sky and is rather bright in frequencies of infrared light.

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