The NASA spacecraft arrived in orbit the largest planet in the solar system and study for 20 months in 37 orbits
The Juno probe NASA today made history by reaching Jupiter’s orbit after five years of mission and became the vehicle that best approaches the giant gaseous planet, in order to decipher its mysteries and discover more about the origin of the solar system.
“This is the most difficult feat that has never gotten NASA,” said Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for the mission, the rest of his team in Pasadena (California) when the success of the maneuver entry into orbit was confirmed.
Juno is the first probe designed to operate in the heart of the belts Jupiter’s radiation, the first to reach 2575 kilometers from their superiors clouds and it will take every 14 days images with higher resolution view ever of the giant planet, culminating mission in February 2018.
Over the next 20 months, the unmanned spacecraft and the size of a basketball court, give 37 laps to Jupiter’s orbit in which attempt to reveal the three main mysteries of the largest planet our solar system, where they can perfectly fit more than 1,000 Earths.
1-How Jupiter formed and the remaining giant planets in our solar system?
According to the US space agency (NASA), this mission will help understand “how giant planets and the role they played in the formation of the rest of the solar system formed.”
the giant planets, also called outer or gaseous, are those which are located beyond the asteroid belt, ie, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Jupiter was probably the first of the planets formed around the Sun because it contains many of the same light gases which is made the star, hydrogen and helium.
to be composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, Jupiter must have formed while there were many of these light gases around, ie, when the solar system was young .
Several NASA scientists and hundreds of astronomers around the world believe there is a rocky planet within this gas giant. The existence of this “super-Earth” that was large enough to be accumulating around large amounts of matter from the primordial cloud surrounding the Sun after his birth is an idea that still stands. Juno instruments allow accurately analyze the gravitational field and the magnetic field of Jupiter, revealing the inner structure of the planet and the mass of its nucleus.
2-What happens under your atmosphere?
the Roman mythology tells us that the goddess Juno was the wife and sister of Jupiter. On one occasion, Jupiter was in love with a nymph named Io, Earth and wrapped with thick clouds so that his wife can not see his infidelity from Olympus. However Juno was not fooled. He lifted the thick veil of clouds and could see the deception.
Scientists hope the probe Juno perform the same behavior and can penetrate the thick gas clouds to see the behavior of the lower atmosphere, its winds, composition and surface temperature. In addition, it will examine the strong magnetic field of Jupiter, will measure the amount of ammonia in the deep atmosphere, and observe the auroras on the planet.
3-¿Cuánta water contains Jupiter?
Jupiter is a mysterious planet. One of the most interesting and enigmatic elements in Jupiter’s atmosphere is water. The Juno probe wants to solve the mystery of how much water contains the gas giant. The first thing you can determine that is if formed in the same position in the solar system where it is now or if it did elsewhere, allowing understand the history of other planets.
Another interesting aspect is that the amount of water found in Jupiter can give an idea of what may have during the formation of the solar system. These data serve as reference to deduce where the water could reach that allowed the emergence of life on Earth.
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