– Welcome to the Jupiter – said earlier one of the followers event flight controllers US space agency after the ship fired the main engine and slowing approached the planet’s orbit. He could only make one attempt to approach. The results were good. Engine firing lasted for half an hour – says the Associated Press. This maneuver was the mission is the most critical, because if braking to the failed probe Juno oddaliłaby from Jupiter, falling out of orbit.
his mission spacecraft launched in August 2011. on the way, beat nearly 3 billion kilometers. It will be orbited Jupiter for a year. During this time, has sent back to Earth pictures – the best approximation of the surface of this planet, ever made.
Because send a radio signal between Jupiter and the Earth takes 48 minutes, in case of problems mission controllers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) in California would not be able to intervene on a regular basis. They could only wait and listen for signals suggesting that the engine Juno was fired as planned. Although the space probe reach the vicinity of Jupiter from the 70s, still a lot of things on this planet do not know.
the Juno spacecraft is 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 Jupiter’s atmosphere and burn.
The project absorbed $ 1.1 billion. This is the second expedition of NASA on this planet. In 2003, arrived there the probe Galileo, who discovered, among other things salty water beneath Europa, one of the satellites of the planet. Scientists expect that Juno will approach Jupiter more than Galileo. Lot probe and recorded its data can be followed in real time over the internet with applications provided by NASA.
(CNN / PAP)
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