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Letter: For the record

Published 13 July 2016

• Life extension: the planned date for the Juno probe to plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere is currently February 2018 (2 July, p 6).

• The result of flight AF447 being angled upwards was that it stalled – meaning its wings lost lift (2 July, p 37).

• Well, well, well: fresh groundwater reserves identified under California's Central Valley are estimated at 2700 cubic kilometres (2 July, p 7).

• Sorry about misspelling Theresa Chapman's name (Letters, 9 July).

Issue no. 3082 published 16 July 2016

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