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Overview<\/h3>\n

The Juno probe entered orbit around the planet Jupiter on July 4, 2016.\u00a0 Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, and the Juno probe will study the magnetic fields of the planet, as well as clues to its origin and composition.<\/p>\n

The Juno Probe<\/h3>\n

The Juno probe launched in August 2011.\u00a0 Its three giant solar panels extend to 9 meters, about the size of a basketball court.\u00a0 They are needed to power the spacecraft, since Jupiter is about five times further from the Sun than Earth and gets about 25 times less sunlight.\u00a0 All the scientific instruments are within a thick vault to protect them from Jupiter\u2019s intense magnetic field.<\/p>\n

The Planet Jupiter<\/h3>\n

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.\u00a0 It is so large that within the Solar System, everything in the solar system except for the sun could fit inside it.\u00a0 It has an ocean of liquid hydrogen rather than water.\u00a0 Although the planet is so huge, its day is only about 10 hours long, as it rotates very quickly.\u00a0 Bands of clouds and spots are formed from ammonia.\u00a0 It has around 60 moons, including the four large moons first discovered by Galileo \u2013 Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.\u00a0 Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System, even larger than Mercury and Pluto.<\/p>\n

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The Juno Mission<\/h3>\n

The Juno probe will orbit Jupiter in a highly elliptical orbit around its poles.\u00a0 The probe itself spins, while the scientific instruments are fixed, so that the most area can be covered by each instrument.\u00a0 Detailed measurements will be made of Jupiter\u2019s strong magnetic field, the clouds, and what lies beneath them.\u00a0 Study of its gravity will provide clues to its structure, as will study of its chemical composition.\u00a0 The spacecraft will orbit Jupiter until February 2018, when it will burn up in its atmosphere.<\/p>\n

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Mission Goals<\/h3>\n

Some of the goals for the Juno mission include how the planet was formed, if it has a solid core, and how its magnetic field was generated.\u00a0 If Jupiter has a solid, rocky core, it would have formed later in the history of the solar system than if its core is not solid.\u00a0 The amount of water and other elements also contain clues to its formation.\u00a0 \u00a0Scientists theorize that Jupiter was the first planet to form, so its composition is closer to the early solar system than the other planets.\u00a0 The Juno mission is the first mission to see beneath the clouds of the planet.<\/p>\n

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Overview The Juno probe entered orbit around the planet Jupiter on July 4, 2016.\u00a0 Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, and the Juno probe will study the magnetic fields of the planet, as well as clues to its origin and composition. The Juno Probe The Juno probe launched in August 2011.\u00a0 Its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3977,3976,3681],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-juno-mission","tag-jupiter","tag-space-exploration"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/scholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}