Hey check this out! NASA's Cassini probe has now been circling Saturn for 13 years.
Cassini was launched on Oct. 15, 1997, covered a total of 2.2 billion miles. The journey featured Venus flybys in April 1998 and June 1999, an Earth encounter in August 1999, and a Jupiter flyby in December 2000.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has over-flown Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot.
Juno flew over the 10,000-mile-wide storm — which is so big that three Earths could fit inside it — at 10:06 p.m. EDT July 11 during the probe's sixth science flyby of Jupiter.
The encounter will provide humanity its first up-close looks at the Great Red Spot, which astronomers have been monitoring since 1830
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