Has Juno Crashed into Jupiter?

After getting a gravity assist flyby of Earth in October 2013, the probe arrived in Jupiter's space in July 2016. ... Originally, the plan was to crash Juno into Jupiter in July 2021 to prevent the probe from becoming space debris. However, the decision to give Juno a new mission will delay that event until 2025.

Is Juno still orbiting Jupiter 2020?

NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest planet through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life.

Has something crashed into Jupiter?

In 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) impacted Jupiter, which had captured the comet shortly before (and broken apart by its gravity). The event became a media circus as it was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects.

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