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Journey to Jupiter: NASA spacecraft nears rendezvous with planet

By ALICIA CHANG, Associated Press
Published: July 1, 2016, 6:00am

LOS ANGELES — Jupiter takes center stage with the arrival next week of a NASA spacecraft built to peek through its thick, swirling clouds and map the planet from the inside out.

The solar-powered Juno spacecraft is on the final leg of a five-year, 1.8 billion-mile voyage to the biggest planet in the solar system.

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