Juno will gather things on things like radiation.
By Rakesh Agrawal
NASA is celebrating the US Independence Day in a big way as it has just announced that after a five year long journey, its probe has hit the largest planet of the solar system (See: By Jove! NASA Probe Arrives at Jupiter After 5-Year Trek http://www.space.com/33343-nasa-juno-spacecraft-arrives-jupiter.html)
Notes, Judy Woodruff, a NASA scientist, “NASA probe is on the planet Jupiter for an unprecedented look after a five-year-long journey of more than 1.8 billion miles and, we, the Scientists, hope to gain new understandings about the largest planet in our system and the solar system itself.”
William Brangham, another scientist, quipped that the long holiday weekend is often a time for big blockbuster movies, so this year it will be a space movie, whose trailer we can right now see!
This may surely be a big-bang space movie released by the NASA as so far, about it has launched ten missions to Jupiter, most of them have been flybys named as Voyager, Pioneer and New Horizons.
This probe will tell us a lot of things about Jupiter, the biggest plant in our solar system of eight planets, being about two-and-a-half times the mass of all the rest of the solar system combined, of the planets, that is. And it’s really like a big deep freeze for how our solar system began four billion years ago.
This probe may tell us what lays beneath the surface there, how much hydrogen, water, about the magnetic field and the gravitational pull, is there a solid core? All these are important clues and information for us to understand how our solar system progressed, how it developed and really how we came to be where we are today.
This way, we can understand things like its magnetic fields as the probe would be using magnetometers and microwave detection capability which will be able to penetrate through its clouds. It also has spectrometers, a device to measure the gravitational pull from the planet itself on the spacecraft, and will be able to give scientists on the ground exactly how strong it is at any given point.
And, as then probe is at the closest orbit ever to Jupiter and will have a 14-day orbit it’ll be able to gather things on things like radiation.
The probe is traveling at 153,000 miles an hour, one of the fastest man made objects ever. So, the trick will be reducing that speed enough so that it doesn’t just whiz by the planet, like some of those other probes we talked about.
And the mission begins now and after 16 months and circulating many times around its 14-days long orbit, it will fall, but not before enriching us with much crucial information about Jupiter including the Jupiter’s poles images. It will also enable us understand their amazing auroras, which are much stronger than we have here on Earth. (See: NASA promising July 4 big bang — and lots of science — when Juno probe reaches Jupiter http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nasa-promising-july-4-big-bang-and-lots-of-science-when-juno-probe-reaches-jupiter/)
People can already enjoy this trailer (See: Live coverage: NASA’s Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter,