NASA: “Juno,” a record close to Jupiter – FOCUS

Jupiter / Photo: allplanets.ru

The automatic interplanetary station “Juno “completed its first orbital 36 flybys of Jupiter, reports LІGA.net citing NASA

.” Juno “as close to Jupiter – a distance of 4.2 thousand kilometers.. Previously, any object on Earth is not approaching a planet so close

The flight speed of “Juno.” – 208 kilometers per hour. Some days you will need to get all the data from the station. NASA should show received photos in a few weeks

“We are in orbit, which no one had ever reached, and these pictures will give us a completely new view of the world of this gas giant” -. Said the head of the project team, Scott Bolton.

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Recall “Juno” launched in August 2011 from Cape Canaveral, she reached the orbit of Jupiter July 4, 2016.