Juno probe enters tonight to the orbit of Jupiter – The Universal

On August 5, 2011, a space probe named Roman goddess took off from Earth toward the solar system’s largest planet.

From that date until today, the probe Juno will have traveled two thousand 800 million kilometers to Jupiter , tonight, will perform a maneuver to enter orbit.

Fortunately, Juno can reach speeds of up to 265 000 500 kilometers per hour and, therefore, only it took five years to get there. If traveling at the speed of a commercial jet, would need 342 years to complete its journey.

Something very interesting must hide the giant gas for the National Space ( Administration of Aeronautics and NASA ) destined thousand 100 million dollars for this mission.

When approaching Jupiter, the powerful gravity of that planet will try to “absorb” the Juno probe , which will reach speeds unimaginable to any land, sea or air vehicle.

during the insertion maneuver, Juno ignite its main engine for 35 minutes in order to slow down drastically to around a thousand 950 kilometers per hour and achieve mounted in the orbit of Jupiter. If you can not slow down, risks continue to live and move to the couple on the planet.

The probe, the size of a basketball court, thoroughly investigate the origin and evolution of a planet whose mass is 300 times that of Earth and it takes 12 Earth years to complete the orbit the sun.

Secrets under the clouds. in Roman mythology, Juno was the wife of the most important gods. Jupiter

to hide their misdeeds, the god was wrapped in a blanket of clouds, but Juno had the ability to look through them and discover the true nature of . her husband

And that is exactly what will probe that bears his name: Juno 5,000 kilometers will be located above the highest clouds on the planet to explore the mysteries beneath them

This is the nearest giant so far reached by a probe location.

the thick layer of brown, red, yellow and white clouds is what gives Jupiter its appearance of artwork . abstract

on the other hand, its atmosphere is very similar to that of the Sun; is mainly composed of two gases. hydrogen and helium

The principal investigator for the mission, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, he said that knowing the history of Jupiter will help you understand the formation around the solar system.

on Thursday, NASA announced the successful entry into the planet’s magnetosphere, that is, the region where the magnetic field acts as a shield against the solar wind.

During his journey through the magnetosphere, Juno was able to capture a sound that scientists called the “roar” of Jupiter.

Juno is the first mission to get as far driven solely by solar .

the visit of Juno to Jupiter will take 20 months, during which it will orbit the planet 37 times.

in February 2018, the probe . come out of orbit and crash intentionally with the planet’s atmosphere to avoid contaminating its moons, as Europe, with terrestrial microorganisms

the transmission NASA can continue on the following links: www .nasa.gov / nasatv or www.ustream.tv/nasa .

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