came to the unknown. After traveling four years and eleven months in the Solar System, the Juno space probe entered Jupiter’s orbit Tuesday.
The ship of the US Space Agency (NASA, for its acronym in English) successfully completed a risky maneuver 35 minutes. Stop the engines down, so that could be drawn into the orbit of the solar system’s largest planet
the NASA headquarters in Pasadena, California, engineers shouted for joy and hugged each other after confirming the success of the mission.
the slightest mistake could end with one project which cost US $ 1,100 million.
The Juno spacecraft, built like an armored tank, try orbit for a year Jupiter.
the goal is to understand how the planet formed, which scientists holds the secrets of how elements like form water, helium, methane and hydrogen.
the information is essential to know how our solar system formed, the Earth and the building blocks of life as we know it.
Jupiter is known as a relentless ball of gas .
It has been described by NASA experts as “a monster rotating so fast that gravity causes launches its giant rocks, comets, cosmic rays … out. “
This is the reason why, according to comments of astronomers gathered at the site NASA, what they fear most specialists on this mission is the unknown.
so the strategy of this mission is approaching, take data in and out.
Juno and it became the ship has been closer to the giant planet.
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