--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit description: Five years after it first left its home planet, earth, NASA spacecraft Juno finally entered Jupiter's orbit. canonical: https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-05T09:40:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:34:01.449Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrate's Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit og:description: "Today's Doodle celebrates this incredible moment of human achievement" og:url: https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1df2a4e0c23f7038/69889a95656a3f18cabcc254/screen-shot-2016-07-05-at-4-23-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-07-05 at 4.23.37 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Doodle Celebrate's Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit twitter:description: "Today's Doodle celebrates this incredible moment of human achievement" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1df2a4e0c23f7038/69889a95656a3f18cabcc254/screen-shot-2016-07-05-at-4-23-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 5, 2016 9:40 AM UTC  Google Doodle marking spacecraft Juno's entry into Jupiter's orbit. Google Doodle marking spacecraft Juno's entry into Jupiter's orbit.Google by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jul 5, 2016 9:40 AM UTC Five years after it first left its home planet, earth, NASA spacecraft Juno finally [entered Jupiter’s orbit](http://time.com/4392844/nasa-jupiter-orbit-juno/?xid=homepage). Soon after, [Google](https://www.google.com/doodles/juno-reaches-jupiter) used its ever-changing logo to salute and celebrate the historic achievement. The animated Google Doodle features the probe starting to beam down images to an ecstatic 8-bit group of scientists, replicating the scenes that played out earlier in the day. “In satellite terms, Juno is a warrior,” Google [said](https://www.google.com/doodles/juno-reaches-jupiter) in a statement. “Today’s Doodle celebrates this incredible moment of human achievement.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit","datePublished":"2016-07-05T09:40:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:34:01.449Z","description":"\"Today's Doodle celebrates this incredible moment of human achievement\"","url":"https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/","keywords":["Newsfeed","NASA","Google Doodle","Juno","orbit","jupiter","scientists","spacecraft"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1df2a4e0c23f7038/69889a95656a3f18cabcc254/screen-shot-2016-07-05-at-4-23-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1df2a4e0c23f7038/69889a95656a3f18cabcc254/screen-shot-2016-07-05-at-4-23-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2016-07-05 at 4.23.37 PM","caption":"Google Doodle Juno Jupiter","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4392893/google-doodle-juno-jupiter-orbit-entry/","name":"New Google Doodle Celebrates Juno's Entry Into Jupiter's Orbit"}}]}] ```