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Atlas V rocket carrying the Juno spacecraft flying up to space.

This Atlas V rocket carried the Juno spacecraft in the top payload section. Liftoff was on 5 August 2011. It took 5 years to travel the 2,800 million kilometres to reach Jupiter.

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Rights: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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