what you might not know about the juno spacecraft
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What You Might Not Know About the Juno Spacecraft
Okay, this is going to take longer than I thought...
Juno? The movie? I don’t remember any spacecrafts in that.
On July 4, 2016...
The Juno spacecraft entered
Jupiter’s orbit
The craft was launched August 5, 2011 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Challenge 2Over 1.7 billion
miles
That’s how far Juno had to travel to reach the engine burn point!
An instrument of exploration
Juno is equipped with tools and technology meant to make incredible discoveries!
JunoAn Instrument of
Exploration
We understand very little about the history of Jupiter and similar planetsJuno has nine instruments for this planetary analysisThe mission hopes to collect data about unknown features of this giant planet
What we already know:
Jupiter is a GIANT...○ Jupiter is by far the biggest
planet in our solar system.
○ While it is only about 1/1000th of the mass of our sun, it’s twice as massive as all the other planets combined!
○ If it were 80 times bigger it would be considered a star because of its atmospheric composition!
...a giant magnet!○ It has an ocean of liquid
metallic hydrogen.○ Jupiter spins incredibly
fast (one day = 10 hours), and the liquid swirls too!
○ This is what creates the magnetic field, which is 20 times stronger than the Earth’s!
Hotter than the sun!○ While the temperature in
Jupiter’s clouds is about -234 fahrenheit, its core is 43,000 fahrenheit!
What we want to know:Magnetic fields and
auroras?
Scientists want to map Jupiter’s vast and powerful magnetic field!
They also hope to learn more about the planet’s auroras, which span distances greater than Earth.
What are its atmospheric and core properties?
Does Jupiter have a solid core? How much water is in its atmosphere? What other materials can be found?
So many questions, so much space!
How do giant planets form?
Jupiter is the largest body in our solar system, besides our sun!
Analysts want to know more about giant planets and how they form.
And keep an eye out for more updates on Juno’s
expedition!
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