Atlas V rocket launched Juno into space and on its way to Jupiter

"Juno probe heads for Jupiter from Cape Canaveral"August 5th, 2011BBC NEWSA $1.1bn (£0.7bn) unmanned space mission has launched from Florida on a journey to the planet Jupiter.The Juno spacecraft will cruise beyond Mars to put itself in orbit around the gas giant in 2016.It is the first solar-powered mission to venture this far from the Sun.The mission launched atop an Atlas 5 rocket from the

Dawn snaps Vesta's "snowman"

Using its framing camera, Dawn obtained this image of Vesta on July 24, 2011, from a distance of about 3,200 miles (5,200 kilometers). The three vertically-aligned craters on the left have been nicknamed "the snowman" by camera team members."Dawn's Smooth Move"August 1st, 2011NASAWhen a NASA spacecraft goes into orbit around a new world for the first time, the control room is usually packed to