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Monday was Juno's first flyby since a plan to tighten orbits from 53.5 days to two weeks had to be scrapped.

NASA's Juno spacecraft sailed over Jupiter's cloud tops early Monday, the fourth time the solar-powered probe has approached the giant planet and collected science data since its arrival last July 4.

[...] On its current trajectory, Juno arcs out to a distance several million miles from Jupiter and returns for a high-speed encounter once every 53-and-a-half days.

[...] "Every time we get near Jupiter's cloud tops, we learn new insights that help us understand this amazing giant planet," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

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