Sunday, 3 July 2016

Juno Spacecraft's July 4 Jupiter Arrival: What to Expect

Juno Spacecraft's July 4 Jupiter Arrival: What to Expect
This artist's illustration shows NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Juno spacecraft is scheduled to enter into orbit around JupiterMonday night (July 4), ending its nearly five-year trek to the solar system's biggest planet.
The key event Monday is a 35-minute engine burn at 11:18 p.m. EDT (0318 GMT on Tuesday), which is designed to slow Juno down enough to be captured by Jupiter's powerful gravity.
If something goes seriously wrong with this burn, the solar-powered Juno will zoom right past the gas giant, and the science goals of the $1.1 billion mission — which include mapping the gravitational and magnetic fields of Jupiter, and characterizing its internal structure — will go unachieved. [Photos: NASA's Juno Mission to Jupiter
Here's a primer on how Juno's highly anticipated Jupiter arrival should go down Monday night, along with a few notes about what to expect from the mission over the longer term.-read more

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