Juno probe flew to the closest distance to Jupiter – New News

The interplanetary station «Juno» (Juno) for the first time spread around Jupiter and set a record in the maximum approach to the planet.

The automatic interplanetary station “Juno» (Juno) has successfully made its first orbital flybys of Jupiter. Total them to be 36. At the time of closest approach to the “Juno” The planet is at a height of about 4.2 thousand. Km above its surface. According to NASA, this is the closest distance to Jupiter, which has ever been the object from Earth.

During the flyby probe is moved at a rate of 208 thousand. Kilometers per hour relative to the planet, writes INTERFAX.RU .

It is noted that all the overflights scheduled to make the remaining before the end of February 2018 year, and each time the distance between the planet and the station will be reduced.

Clarifies also that the task of “Juno” is the study of Jupiter’s polar orbit of a planet artificial satellite.

Earlier “NO “I wrote that in July this year, the automatic interplanetary station (AIS)” Juno “(the Juno), which was launched from Earth five years ago, entered the orbit of Jupiter. Scientists hope to study the composition of the planet, to later find the keys to the secrets of the origin of the universe

«Juno.” – One of the three vehicles, NASA experts built under the program “New Frontiers”. Last year, another interplanetary station – New Horizons – flew a short distance from Pluto, and scientific probe OSIRIS-REx in September should go to the asteroid Bennu
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