American Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter – Deon.pl

The sequence of signals transmitted from the probe confirmed that the braking maneuver went according to plan. After receiving these signals at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Center in California exploded euphoria. “I took Juno, welcome to Jupiter” – announced after a while controllers.

“NASA has done it again,” – said the head of jubilant team of scientists Juno Scott Bolton. “I’m so happy that I belong to a team that did it. (…) It’s almost like a dream come true” – he added.

His mission, which cost 1.1 billion dollars, the probe launched in August 2011. on the way, beat nearly 3 billion kilometers.

Juno will be circling Jupiter, the fifth from the Sun and the largest planet of the solar system for a year. During this time, has sent back to Earth pictures – the best approximation of the surface of this planet, ever made.

Jupiter Images longer pass Although some probes and the Hubble Space Telescope. Researchers say, however, that the best photos will go only into their hands. Juno descends closer to the surface and provide detailed images: the polar regions, clouds or aurora clearing.

In contrast to the rocky Earth or Mars – Jupiter is a gas giant, built primarily of hydrogen and helium. The scientists hope that their research can tell a lot about the fundamental processes of formation and early evolution of the solar system.

While space probes reach the vicinity of Jupiter from the 70s, still a lot of things on this planet we know how many are on the water, whether it has a dense core, and why shrinking -charakterystyczny Great Red Spot, a huge permanent anticyclone, blowing on Jupiter south of the equator at least several hundred years.

on board the Juno there are nine instruments to investigate Jupiter’s gaseous interior and the turbulent atmosphere. There are also three figurines Lego, representing the Roman god Jupiter, the goddess Juno and Galileo Galilei (Galileo).

When Juno fulfill its tasks in 2018 finally “dives” in the atmosphere of Jupiter and burn.

We have already Jupiter were heard Voyager, Pioneers, Galileo, Ulysses, Cassini and New Horizons, a year ago, in 2015., reached Pluto. Most of them with different objectives, Jupiter passed just over the road. Galileo orbited Jupiter only (or even introduced in its atmosphere probe of measuring apparatus).