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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Mark your calendars for the Juno Mission
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:00:59
	Publish Date:		2015-09-08 19:00:00
	Description:		If you thought NASA’s New Horizons flyby of Pluto was impressive, you may want to mark your calendars for Juno, a Jupiter-bound spacecraft that launched in August 2011 and is set to arrive in July 2016. Research fellow Lauren Weiss of the University of California, Berkeley’s Astronomy Department says that instead of flying by, Juno will orbit the gas giant for a full Earth year. "The Juno Mission will try to determine whether Jupiter, our own gas giant, indeed has a rocky core because we’ve never actually made a conclusive detection of the rocky core of Jupiter yet. And it will take very careful measurements of the gravitational field, with changing heights, from Jupiter and positions around Jupiter." Weiss says that the mission will hopefully reveal whether all planets have a rocky core. "We think that all planets have a rocky interior. And so that will hopefully reveal whether the core is rocky."
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