This is what you must know to understand the arrival of a spacecraft to Jupiter this July 4th – Univisión

Did you know that this is one of the most expensive projects of NASA and who leads a Colombian? Here we tell you more.

it is said that Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system because it played a very important role to give life on Earth. Why? How auroral form this week showed us the Hubble Space Telescope? What’s under that thick layer of gas?

ship of the National Administration of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will arrive this July 4th for start clearing these and many other questions about the huge gaseous planet.

His arrival can be seen live from the website NASA.

Here are 10 things will help you understand the mission:

1. it is not the first time Jupiter is explored. Since 1970, various space probes have investigated the solar system’s largest planet. The largest study corresponds to the probe Galileo and lasted 14 years. Yes, it is the first time in 10 years to be investigated there.

2. The scientific expedition Juno is one of the projects expensive of the history of NASA. The probe weighs four tons and is valued at mission 1,100 million.

3. Jupiter is more than 650 million kilometers from the Sun, five times farther than Earth. To get there, Juno began his journey makes 5 years from Cape Canaveral . The ship made an elliptical journey through the inner solar system and used the gravity of Earth to gain momentum into deep space.

4. All missions prior to Jupiter used nuclear energy for propulsion, but Juno solar powered , it has special panels that are oriented toward the sun.

5. The mission is led by a Colombian , Adriana Ocampo Uria , planetary geologist and executive NASA’s New Frontiers program. Ocampo was responsible for the “successful mission” that led to the New Horizons probe to 12,500 kilometers from the surface of Pluto on 14 July 2015. “We will get there with a probe whose source of energy are solar cells. There will study and seek to learn how a planet formed. It’s all a vital scientific approach. This new mission on board instruments that will take X-rays of the entire planet to measure its depth, “he said.

6. Enter Jupiter’s atmosphere is a dangerous maneuver. This July 4, Juno will be at a distance of 800 million kilometers from this and only has a chance to maneuver and not be affected by radiation from Jupiter, said Scott Bolton, head of the mission. Juno will turn ‘just in time’ its main engine to slow down and thus enter orbit around the planet and not crash against him.

7. Once in orbit, Juno will study the auroras of Jupiter, considered the most intense of the solar system. For it will orbit for a year on the poles of that planet and equipment will be able to see to the surface through the clouds that form in its atmosphere.

8. Juno’s science instruments will inside a titanium vault to protect them from radiation. The spacecraft also carries a camera and scientists said they will give the public the opportunity to suggest which photos should be taken.

9. He made 32 orbits the planet at a distance of about 4,800 kilometers above the cloud cover of Jupiter. The closest I had been on this planet before was in 1974, when the US probe Pioneer 11 approached 43,000 km.

10. Is scheduled to mission ends in 2018 , when Juno will fall and will burn in the atmosphere of Jupiter. This decision seeks to prevent the probe could crash against one of the ‘moons’ Jupiter water containing .