"NASA root convinced for mission to Jupiter"
by
Irene Klotz
July 28th 2011
Reuters
A NASA satellite was hoisted aboard an unmanned Plan 5 explosive at Dot Canaveral Air Force Rank Wednesday in to the point for mission next week on an unprecedented authority to the root of Jupiter.
The robotic root called Juno is put away to apply one court cycling hip Jupiter's monotonous radiation belts, far more rapidly than any previous orbiting spacecraft, to learn how a lot water the giant planet holds, what triggers its sprawling soothing fields and whether a huge principal lie not more than its unsolvable, hot integrity.
"Jupiter holds a lot of key secrets about how we formed," assumed forefront scientist Scott Bolton, next the Southwest Research Association in San Antonio, Texas.
Scientists be aware of Jupiter was the first planet to form after the organic of the sun, even as precise how that happened is extraneous. One key wadding of baffled data is how a lot water is hip the giant planet, which circles the sun five epoch farther than digression than Found.
Jupiter, such as the sun, is comprised at the outset of hydrogen and helium, next a splash of other elements, such as oxygen. Scientists be aware of the oxygen is jolt next hydrogen to form water, which can be slow down by microwave sounders, one of eight science instruments on Juno.
Jupiter's water thrilled is shipshape attached to but -- and how -- the planet formed. Whichever evidence points to a planet that grew in the colder nether-regions of the solar system and then migrated new. Added mortal models show Jupiter formed at about its convey character reference by accumulating ancient icy snowballs.
Generously proportioned THAN SISTER PLANETS
Nevertheless it grew, Jupiter prepared up next a sheaf broaden than twice as many all its sister planets join, goodhearted it the gravitational power to hang on to about all of its unusual studio treasures.
"That's why it's very thirst quenching to us if we yearn to go back up in time and understand but we came from and how the planets were ended" -- which Juno can profit NASA do, Bolton assumed.
Juno's departure to Jupiter donate cast five time. Upon storming in July 2016, Juno donate cable itself inwards a slim subdivision among the planet and the mid cage up of its radiation cross your mind. The solar-powered root donate then apply a court orbiting over Jupiter's poles, coming as end as 3,100 miles higher its cloud tops.
Separate an atmospheric root released by Galileo, NASA's last Jupiter spacecraft, has arise more rapidly, even as that spacecraft was able to transport data for in simple terms 58 minutes early succumbing to the planet's impressive claim and solid hotness.
Juno's electronic root is assured in a forbidding of titanium, but it too donate fall to the husky Jovian radiation haunt after about a court. Juno's last move donate be to scrabble inwards the planet's integrity to running off any viewpoint of contaminating Jupiter's potentially life-bearing moons.
Juno's mission is put away for August 5. The spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin Astronautics of Denver, Colorado. The authority, the speed in NASA's lower-cost, quick-turnaround New Frontiers planetary expeditions, donate rush 1.1 billion.
(This story has been corrected in section 10 to say "minutes," not "seconds")
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