The NASA Juno spacecraft will makes its 60th close flyby (Perijove 60) in a few hours tonight.
It will swoop within 3,180 km above Jupiter's cloud-tops and will be in Jupiter's shadow for about 5 minutes. Juno will encounter solar eclipses like this in all flybys of Jupiter until the end of mission in late 2025.
Henceforth, Juno will carry out a series of occultation experiments that use Juno’s Gravity Science experiment to study Jupiter’s upper atmospheric.
