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The Juno team, from left to right, Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Jack Connerney, Juno deputy principal investigator and magnetometer lead co-investigator, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator, Southwest Research Institute; and Diane Brown, Juno program executive, NASA, pose with a firework shell with a Juno logo on it as they are interviewed during the Rose Bowl media day on Friday, July 1, 2016 at the Brookside Golf and Country Club in Pasadena, CA. A similar firework will be set off at the Rose Bowl on July 4th when Juno is scheduled to go into orbit around Jupiter. The Juno mission launched August 5, 2011 and will arrive at Jupiter July 4 to orbit the planet for 20 months and collect data on the planetary core, map the magnetic field, and measure the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere.