Flyby puts Juno spacecraft on a course for Jupiter

David Szondy — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 06:29:14 GMT

Online observatory Slooh has streamed live pictures of NASA’s Juno space probe flyby. The feed from the robotic half-meter telescope in the Canary islands gave visitors a ringside seat as the probe passed within 347 mi (559 km) of Earth in a slingshot maneuver designed to take it all the way to Jupiter.