Karen and John Becker of the Pine Mountain community were writing friends from Paris on the 4th of July, but it wasn’t about their wonderful vacation. It was about a voyage their physicist daughter Heidi has been on for 10 years, to do research on Jupiter.

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As of July 4, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter. This Hubble image shows auroras on the giant planet. Heidi Becker studies the strong radiation and magnetic field that help create this phenomenon.

Physicist Heidi Becker, JPL radiation scientist

Pine Mountain’s Karen and John Becker sent this photo from Paris, celebrating Juno’s success.

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