NASA’s Juno spacecraft slowed its record breaking pace just enough to get caught in the pull of Jupiter‘s gravity. (The timing, according to NASA, was just a very patriotic coincidence.) Either way, Independence Day 2016 was the last time the Juno mission pumped its brakes. In the year since, the 66-foot solar-powered craft has given scientists more and weirder Jupiter data than they ever thought possible.
So, in honor of Juno’s first year orbiting the hitherto mysterious gas giant, here’s a rundown of the mission’s greatest scientific hits so far.
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