NASA's Juno probe, which was studying Jupiter, was launched in 2011 and entered orbit around Jupiter in 2016. Since then, it has been studying Jupiter and the moons and sending us a lot of information about the entire Jupiter system, but it has ended its mission and has been left in a kind of limbo because it turns out that since the United States government is closed, we don't know what will happen to Juno.
Juno officially ended on September 30, it was planned to crash into the clouds of Jupiter on a suicide mission to collect information about what is there under the clouds of Jupiter or at least as far as the ship can hold to send us all the possible data. Why against Jupiter's clouds? Well, because NASA was afraid that there would be bacteria of terrestrial origin on the ship and that the ship, if left adrift, would end up crashing into the moon Europa and those terrestrial bacteria would end up colonizing the moon Europa and specifically its surface ocean, creating an extraterrestrial invasion, but of bacteria.
They had that fear and so to avoid that very small risk, to avoid it, they decided on this tremendous and epic ending by launching themselves against the clouds of Jupiter. But what does this have to do with 3I/Atlas? It turns out that a couple of months ago it was proposed that since Juno was finishing its mission and since it still had a little bit of fuel left, Juno would divert it and send it to meet 3I/Atlas, because it turns out that 3I/Atlas with the planned trajectory, if it does not undergo changes after passing the sun, with the planned trajectory it would pass about 53 million kilometers from Jupiter, it is quite a distance, but not much, that is, there was time to send the Juno probe to arrive pretty close.
It was not clear, due to the calculations there was controversy about whether it was capable of making a real flyby over 3I/Atlas or it would stay a few million from three and Atlas, although being a few million kilometers from three and back, it could get a lot of information for two reasons. The first is that at the height of Jupiter it would have cooled down quite a bit, so the cloud of gas and dust surrounding 3I/Atlas would have shrunk a lot. Maybe I don't think I could see the core, but I could have images and collect very interesting data.
And second, because Juno is equipped with very good cameras and equipment to make that type of observations, but NASA passed on the topic, in fact, I don't think it even responded and there was a request from a congresswoman, if I'm not mistaken, and but in the end they passed on the topic, they didn't send it, they let Juno finish its last flights and orbits around Jupiter and now it is in a total limbo, we don't know about Juno, they are going to do almost a Viking burial. burning in the clouds of Jupiter while it sends us all possible information about what is down there or what is going to happen, because the United States has a closed government and we know nothing about what is going to happen to Juno.
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