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Jupiter: Up Close and Personal

How Nasa's Juno spacecraft's images of Jupiter provide new insight, from an understanding of its formation to revelations about its raging storms.

Nasa's Juno spacecraft is currently making its 13th orbit of Jupiter on one of the most ambitious and risky space missions ever undertaken. The astonishing images it has captured are not just visually stunning, they also deliver spectacular scientific insight, revolutionising our ideas about Jupiter. Maggie Aderin-Pocock explores these stunning discoveries, from a new understanding of Jupiter's core and formation to revelations about how deep its raging storms penetrate the planet's mysterious interior.

30 minutes

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Thu 14 Jun 2018 19:30
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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Jean Sibelius

    Pelleas and Melisande: At The Castle Gate

    Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
  • 00:29

    Greg McDonald

    Stranger At The Door

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Presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Presenter Pete Lawrence
Producer Simon Winchcombe
Executive Producer Jonathan Renouf

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