OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT: Jupiter and the Juno mission

If you want to try this extra-credit assignment, you'll be taking a deep dive into the website of a robotic spacecraft mission to Jupiter, called Juno:

Artists' concept of the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Juno spacecraft was launched in 2011, and entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016. Many of the scientists who are involved with Juno are based at an organization called SWRI - the Southwest Research Institute. SWRI has put together a very detailed website called Mission Juno.

If you explore that website, you'll see that most of the content was written before the spacecraft arrived. The questions for this assignment will be based on that content. The most important part of the website is a section called The Story. Navigating it can be a little tricky, but don't worry - each question will give you a link to the right section of the site.

Questions 1-15 are mostly multiple-choice. Each of those questions will give you a link to one of the webpages within "The Story". It'll be up to you to dig around on that page you've been sent to, to find the information to answer the question. Each of these questions will be worth 1.5 points, if you get it right.

Question 16 will ask you to write a short answer in your own words. For this, you'll need to explore the pages within "The Story" to find the relevant information. (Pro Tip: As you're doing Q 1-15, make a mental note of any information concerning how Jupiter has been important for the Earth during the history of our solar system.) Maximum possible points for this question will be 5 points.