This Fourth of July, our solar-powered NASA’s Juno Mission to Jupiter will arrive at Jupiter after an almost five-year journey.
Juno will perform a suspenseful orbit insertion maneuver, a 35-minute burn of its main engine, to slow the spacecraft by about 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per second) so it can be captured into the gas giant’s orbit. Once in Jupiter’s orbit, the spacecraft will circle the Jovian world 37 times during 20 months, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. This is the first time a spacecraft will orbit the poles of Jupiter, providing new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet’s core, composition and magnetic fields.
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jupiter . gas planet
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Gas giant
Nairofi tutaiona saa ngapi:)?
Thats close for planet that size.
What happens after the 20 months?
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@mtadao umepoteza network.
Maybe it will proceed to explore Jupiter’s moons especially Europa
Ati 5yrs journey hizi vitu zinakaanga unrealistic
I have always wanted to refute NASA too.
Isn’t 37 times in 20 months too slow for a spacecraft or how vast is that planet?
Jupiter is quite big, it would take 1300 earths to fill it volume
Below is a comparison with earth
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Si tuhamie huko basi
we would never survive there, it is a gas planet with 75 percent of it mass being hydrogen
Shine - eye be thinking like dhatin hadred adhs? hizo ni proti gapi za wan eidh? Ngai! Mbeca ta ngui.
By the way, Jupiter is visible to our naked eyes. Tonight it is almost overhead by nightfall! If you’re interested, I can tell you how to spot it.
tungepewa jupiter si kila mtu angekuwa na mogonda kubwa.
Eeeeh…kama vile tulipewa hewa hatuoni haja yake tunai-pollute.