NASA spacecraft will reach Jupiter after almost 5 years of travel – Digital Journal Juarez

Los Angeles- A NASA spacecraft is on track to meet Jupiter after a journey of nearly five years.

The probe will encounter the giant July 4 at the latest to study how they formed and evolved the solar system’s largest planet space mission.

as you approach the harsh radiation environment of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft lights its main engine to slow down and go into orbit around the planet.

“it’s a maneuver only one chance,” the head of the mission, the scientist Scott Bolton, of the Research Institute said yesterday southwest in San Antonio, Texas. “Everything depends on it.”

If the mission goes according to schedule, Juno will orbit Jupiter’s poles for almost a year and will peek through the clouds to investigate the auroras of the planet, considered the most intense of the solar system.

“Jupiter is a planet with steroids. Everything about him is extreme, “said Bolton.

Since the 1970s, various space probes that have orbited Jupiter or past long have sent amazing views of the Great Red Spot-a relentless distinctive storm planet, as well as its numerous moons.

the largest study corresponds to the Galileo probe, which in turn launched another probe to the surface. Galileo explored Jupiter and its satellites for 14 years.

Unlike Earth, a rocky planet, Jupiter is a giant composed primarily of hydrogen and helium. Scientists do not know yet whether Jupiter has a solid core, as well as the amounts of oxygen and water on the planet, information that could help unravel how it was that the Earth and the solar system reached its current state.

Juno’s journey to Jupiter _ the fifth planet from the Sol_ took almost five years; the ship made an elliptical journey through the inner solar system and used the gravity of Earth to gain momentum into deep space.

The missions before Jupiter used sources of nuclear power because of the enormous distance that would separate the probes del Sol. Juno is solar powered. Has special panels that are oriented toward the sun most of the mission.

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