Peter Spinks reports in the Sydney Morning Herald today on the arrival
of the NASA Juno probe to Jupiter on Monday.
Quote:
One of NASA's most daring and dangerous missions is under way, as the Juno space probe makes its final approach to the king of planets, Jupiter, after a tortuous five-year journey spanning almost 3 billion kilometres.
Travelling at a record 257,000km/h, the craft will soon begin a series of acrobatic braking manoeuvres for the first of 33 highly elliptical polar orbits.
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When it reaches Jupiter on Monday, the hardy probe, with a titanium vault protecting its innards, will be the first to have a shot at polar orbiting a giant gas planet.
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Article here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...28-gpu3bu.html
NASA Juno web site -
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html
Where is Juno now?
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/where