Lil' Juno's Radiometer Now Peering 250 Miles Beneath Jupiter's Cloud-tops... Sweet Science-y Goodness!

As I write this, Juno is only a few thousand miles above Jupiter's cloud tops -- speeding by at nearly 100,000 miles an hour.

Follow along in near real time, on Juno's Twitter-feed:

. . . .NASA's Juno Mission‏Verified account @NASAJuno 18 minutes ago

Replying to @NASAJuno @nasa_eyes Because this flyby occurs during solar conjunction we may not get confirmation of success until a week or so after the event.

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We will have to wait a tick now, until November 4, 2017 -- in all likelihood to see whether "the package" has arrived safely. The package generated by gazing deeply RIGHT NOW, at 12:34 -- beneath the cloud-covered kimono of this particular Jovian night.

Between now and then, as most sublime poetry would have it, the fierce brightness (and radio emissions) of our own Sun -- around which we orient our lives -- will be blotting out lil' Juno. Preventing transmission of data, in all likelihood. Now you know. Onward.

Run smoothly silent, twisting all the while, in the dark -- but do run deep, beautiful one. . . . that is an effort of unwasted grace, to be sure.

नमस्ते