Monday, August 29, 2016

Spacecraft record close to Jupiter – “can provide new perspectives” – Aftonbladet

Never before have we been so close to the planet Jupiter that now.

In the night beat Nasa record of 1975 – the spacecraft Juno is just 4200 kilometers from the gasjättens surface.

– this can give us a whole new perspective, says investigator Scott Bolton.

“Everything has worked as it should,” NASA writes in a message.

Five years after leaving earth, the space probe Juno records come close to Mars – just 4200 kilometers above the planet’s swirling clouds. Now hope NASA for answers about the solar system.

– This is our first chance to really get a close look at the king of our solar system and begin to find out how it works, said Scott Bolton, head of Juno project and researcher at the Southwest Research Instiute of San Antonio, in a press release from NASA.

Unique images of the gas giant

This is the first of 37 laps around the planet as the spacecraft will do to its mission will end in February 2018. the goal is to investigate whether there is a solid core of gasjättens center and the space probe will also measure the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere. NASA also plans to map the planet’s violent winds and magnetic fields.

In addition, the spacecraft delivered unique image, the highest resolution images ever on Jupiter, and tons of other data has been collected – now the material should only be downloaded to us on earth.

– It will take days to gather all the material and even longer to understand what Juno and Jupiter is trying to tell us, he says. READ ALSO Juno: “Ready to reveal all the secrets …”

Brought ten times closer

The record for how close you were previously Jupiter taken by NASA’s Pioneer 11 spacecraft, which in 1974 passed about 43,000 kilometers of gas giant.

This means that today we have come full ten times – or nearly four globe – closer.

– we have come much closer, but the planet’s huge so when the pictures released, we see very detailed images of small areas on the planet, says space expert Sven Grahn told Aftonbladet.

– Jupiter is a cool plane and now we will suddenly get ten times better visual acuity, he said.

the spacecraft also has three, something unexpected, passengers, three custom-made mercenary men in aluminum. The reason they are not made of plastic is for them to cope with the harsh space weather. The toys represent the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and divinity wife Juno. READ ALSO Hear the mysterious sounds from Jupiter

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