Juno Finally On Its Trail To Get Personal with Jupiter.
Wow! What a great news From our Guys at NASA, Juno Finally Orbits by the side of Massive Jupiter. Now that is what i call a Human Achievement by the great Hard working and Talented Stakeholders of the NASA. I literally applauding this Breakthrough, which lets me awe the guys and how they are advancing a step closer to Humans exploration
Hey Hold On a minute, want to get some primer on Whats the deal with Juno orbiting Jupiter.
Jupiter is the Gas giant of our solar system, formed probably right after Sun was born. It is 11 times wider then earth and 300 times heavier than earth. Now doesn't it excites that it is totally made of Gases of Hydrogen and helium, just imagine how massive and dynamic it could be..wwwwoooooh!
Spacecraft like Galileo had been to Jupiter but not that close to get more detailing, primarily it was used to study the probable habitable ocean underneath the surface for the moon Europa. But it was purposely crashed landed into the Jupiter to prevent, any damage to the moon.
Now we don't know lot of intriguing things about Jupiter, Like Is there any solid surface, The Brighter poles, the shrinkage of the Storm called the Red Eye and the relativistic things which can lead to solve lot of puzzling things during the creation of our solar system.
Now Juno is a spinning probe with the length spanning that of a basket ball court totally powered by solar system and first of its kind to get so far.
Currently it is in dormant state. Using Slingshot by the earth gravity assist it had been traveling to the Jupiter subsequently went on to fire reverse engines for around 30 mins so that it can apply the thrust er break and slowly enter the Jupiter orbits while this was achieved on autopilot as it being hugely far and the communication delays would prohibit the monitoring. It will orbit 20 times around the Jupiter at height below 5000 kilometer to make its observation for a span of 20 month. After which it would sacrifice itself disintegrating into piece on the Jupiter, preventing contamination of the moons of Jupiter.
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