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Watch Juno Spacecraft Arrive at Jupiter July 4th 9:30pmCT
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Juno spacecraft media briefing screenshots from today! This basketball sized craft will insert into Jupiter’s orbit exposing itself to the radiation equivalent to a human receiving 100 million X-Rays in a year. Jupiter’s is still cooling down since its creation like taking a cake out of the oven. The famous red spot reveals how that heat is coming out. Goals of this mission include: learning how Jupiter was formed, how does its storms differ from our storms, what is the magnitude of its magnetic field, more accurately determine what is Jupiter composed of.
Pictures of Jupiter Revealed July 4th
Spend 2016’s Fourth of July in a most patriotic way - see new pictures of Jupiter sent back to Earth by NASA’s Juno space craft. Below is a schedule of when you can join the interstellar festivities on NASA TV CT (on either media or public channel): http://www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
5am - 10am Scientist Interviews 11am - Noon Media Brief 3pm - 4pm Media Brief Replay 7pm - 8pm Media Brief Replay 9:30pm - 11:30pm Jupiter Insertion!