The Sun That Never Sets on Juno's Instruments

On August 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a five-year journey to Jupiter. When it finally slipped into orbit, scientists discovered something remarkable about the gas giant's polar regions: auroras so powerful they dwarfed anything seen on Earth, fueled by a magnetic field twenty thousand times stronger than our own. But here is what captivated the research team most — Jupiter's magnetosphere never fluctuates the way Earth's does.…