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Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), describes details of the Juno mission with a model of the spacecraft, at a news briefing on Thursday, June 16 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The Juno mission, which launched on August 5, 2011, will arrive at Jupiter July 4, 2016, to orbit the planet for 20 months and collect data on the planetary core, map the magnetic field, measure the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere, and observe the planet's auroras.