Braking maneuvers and orbital insertion is made.
Automatic interplanetary station Juno (Jupiter Polar Orbiter) arrived to Jupiter. The journey from the Earth to the largest planet in the Solar system that has large solar panels, took about five years. It is reported by NASA.
Braking maneuvers and orbital insertion is made. “Success! Engine work completed. Juno now orbits around Jupiter and is ready to reveal the secrets of the planet,” — said in Twitter NASA.
Station, Juno will orbit the gas giant in an elliptical orbit at a distance of five thousand kilometers from the atmosphere (on average). During the earthly years of the planned 33 revolutions Juno around Jupiter with a period of 14 days each. The objectives of the mission included the study of clouds and polar auroras of Jupiter. With Juno, scientists hope to learn more about the origin of the planets, structure and physical properties of its atmosphere and magnetosphere.
Scientific instruments of the mission has recorded the entry station to the magnetosphere of Jupiter and took pictures of the gas giant on the background of three of its satellites (Ganymede, IO and Europe).
Juno is named after the Greco-Roman goddess of marriage and the birth of Juno, sister and wife of Jupiter. The station was launched on 5 August 2011 from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral with the help of the carrier rocket Atlas V. the Device is manufactured by Lockheed Martin and operated by the jet propulsion Laboratory NASA, located in Pasadena.
Mission Juno will be one of the shortest for NASA. It should be completed in February 2018, the flooding of the station in the gas giant’s atmosphere. Thus, scientists are going to prevent the biomaterial from the Earth to the moons of Jupiter, in the sub-ice oceans which allowed the existence of life (Europe, Ganymede and Callisto).
