NASA has published a unique photo of Jupiter

Space station explored a planet closer to them.

Space station Juno made the first of 36 planned during the mission flight around Jupiter.

This time of AMS closing to a record close distance to the planet — 4200 km and Its speed was 208 thousand km/hour.

In addition, on August 27 machine did the Northern region of Jupiter at the distance of 703 thousand. “the First data after the flight show that everything goes according to plan,” — said the head of the Juno mission at the jet propulsion Laboratory, NASA Rick Nybakken.

The station will make another 35 flights around the gas giant, the last of which will be in February 2018. An overflight on 27 August was the first time Juno has included all of its scientific instruments.

The core data and photographs, the scientists will get in the next few weeks. Among them are images of the atmosphere, North and South poles of Jupiter in high quality.

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