NASA's Juno spacecraft becomes most distant solar powered craft

  • 7 years ago
NASA's Juno spacecraft mission to Jupiter has broken the record to become the humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary. Juno has travelled about 793 million kilometers from the Sun. European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft was the previous record-holder, whose orbit peaked out at 792-million-kilometer mark in October 2012, during its approach to comet 67P.

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