VIDEO Real footage of Jupiter and its moons

Something incredible is happening out near Jupiter right now...

VIDEO Real footage of Jupiter and its moons

No that's not a line from 2001, but something very real as NASA's Juno craft moves into the shadow of the largest planet in the solar system, five years after starting its journey.

It's a pretty amazing thing to consider a scrappy human craft winging its way 370 million miles to take a gander at a true giant. And you can see what that approach looked like in a stunning time lapse captured by Juno over a number of weeks from the 12th to the 29th of June, 2016.

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