Juno spacecraft
July 4 2016 at 11:54 PM Nasa’s Juno Mission tweets the following message -“Engine burn complete and orbit obtained. I’m ready to unlock all your secrets, #Jupiter. Deal with it.”
Juno is the second spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, after the Galileo.It was launched on August 5, 2011 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Mission
Giant Jupiter was formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago. Juno will try to unlocked the mystery of this planet by probing the deep interior and analyze the planet’s structure.
It will also try to test the theory- “Auroras over Jupiter’s poles is actually caused by the planet’s rapid rotation and volcanic material spewed out from Io. Io is the Jupiter’s fifth moon and the most volcanically active body in the solar system.”
In 2001 Professor Stan Cowley and Professor Emma Bunce proposed this theory.
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About Juno
Jupiter from Juno’s Camera
- It was named after the Roman goddess and wife of Jupiter .
- Juno cost about $1.1 billion(US). Original proposed cost was approximately US$700 million.
- Launched August 5, 2011
- Powered by solar arrays with the maximum speed of 38,000 km/h.
- Has nine different instruments that will be use to conduct the analyzing.
- It will fly 3,000 miles closer to the surface. No spacecraft has ever flown this close to Jupiter.
Juno and Jupiter Forever
Juno travelled 1.7 billion to reach Jupiter. But after it’s mission – Juno will not return to Earth. It will dive down to Jupiter’s atmosphere and live there forever.
Writer – Rubayat M.
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