Atlas V Rocket Launches NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter #1981261 (License: Personal Use)

The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, designated AV-029, ascends powerfully from Cape Canaveral, its five solid rocket boosters and RD-180 main engine generating intense thrust and billowing exhaust. Marked with NASA, USAF, and ULA insignia-and bearing the Juno mission patch-the vehicle carries the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter to investigate the gas giant’s composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. Ice particles shed from the cryogenic fuel tank shimmer in the sunlight as the rocket clears the launch tower.

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