NASA’s Juno spacecraft achieves orbit around Jupiter
JUL 05, 2016
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029938
Nature : On 4 July NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit. Launched in August 2011, the craft took almost five years to make the roughly 2.7 billion km trip. Juno is to complete two 53-day orbits of the planet before burning its main engine and settling into a shorter, 14-day orbiting pattern. The first spacecraft in more than two decades to visit Jupiter, Juno will investigate the giant planet’s composition, Great Red Spot, and massive radiation belts. The ultimate goal is to gain insight into how Jupiter, and the entire solar system, evolved.
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