Juno Spacecraft Observation

This launch will be designated to fly into the Sun's atmosphere for the first time ever in history. The goal of this mission is to understand how the corona of the Sun is heated and how solar wind is used through the Sun. This mission will help lead us to discover how the Sun gain it's heat and how we could possibly protect our heat on Earth. There has been a great formation of probe missions over the years. The range of technology that has advanced is astonishing to believe that in a couple of years we will have readable equipment to enter into the Sun.

Jupiter had the responsibility to rule the sky. He was in a triad called the Capitoline Triad along with Juno and Minerva. He was the King of Roman Gods. He was also the King of olympian Gods. He was the God of Light.

Jupiter is the largest and the fastest spinning planet in our solar system. The storm on Jupiter known as the Great Red Spot could swallow up the entire Earth. Jupiter is made primarily of hydrogen and helium and has no solid surface. Its atmosphere resembles that of the sun. Stathopoulus (2000 – 2011), “ Sixteen moons have been identified, with Ganymede noted as the largest - it is bigger than both Mercury and Pluto” (Facts about Jupiter, para. 9).

Jupiter is a VERY important planet. Not only does is it the biggest planet in our solar system, but it keeps thousands of minor planets in their orbits. There is a family of minor planets (or asteroids) in the same plane as Jupiter. These are called Trojan asteroids. Scientists have divided these into two groups the “Greeks” and the “Trojans”. The “Greeks” come before Jupiter and the “Trojans” follow Jupiter. These asteroids are as far away from Jupiter as they are from the sun; because of this they stay and will continue to stay in the positions they are in because the gravitational pull from Jupiter and the sun are the same.

It will look deep into Jupiter's atmosphere to measure composition, temperature, cloud motions and other properties. Juno will also map Jupiter's magnetic and gravity fields, revealing the planet's deep structure and also explore and study Jupiter's magnetosphere near the planet's poles, especially the auroras. Jupiter's northern and southern lights which providing new insights about how the planet's enormous magnetic force field affects its atmosphere. Juno will let us take a giant step forward in our understanding of how giant planets form and the role these titans played in putting together the rest of the solar system. Juno will help scientists understand how Jupiter was made. The spacecraft will help them learn how Jupiter has changed, too. The new discoveries can help us understand more about our solar

Jupiter Research Jupiter is the fifth and largest planet in our solar system. This gas giant has a thick atmosphere, 17 moons, and a dark, barely-visible ring. Its most prominent features are bands across its latitudes and a great red spot, (which is a storm). Jupiter is composed mostly of gas.

Jupiter was the last planet on this part of the mission and I was ready to go home. We have been here three years and it will take a year to get home. Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It is made up of gas, and it has a big red spot

This program is being presented in over 750 planetariums around the world as part of the “International Year of Astronomy”. Basically, it has been four hundred years since Galileo Galilei invented the telescope and planetariums are celebrating the invention with this presentation. This program was well worth the time to see because it provided a relaxed and interesting learning experience for all in attendance.

In July scientists discovered that Juno had made it to Jupiter. The spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on august 5, five years ago. In those five years, it has traveled 1.8 billion miles to Jupiter. Currently Juno is in orbit around the large planet. It will hopefully collect enough data to help us better understand the planet.

Galileo started off the mission by launching off on October 18th, 1989 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The spacecraft entered Jupiter’s orbit on December 8, 1995. Its mission ended and it decayed into the atmosphere on September 21, 2003. Galileo also discovered various meaningful results such as certain measurements in the atmosphere. For example, the density and temperature of the upper atmosphere is greatly higher than expected. On the other hand, the lower atmosphere’s temperature is closer to what was expected. Additionally, it was analyzed that the deep atmosphere was dryer than expected. Furthermore, it was discovered that the scientific instruments on the spacecraft worked successfully. While on the mission, Galileo detected a radiation belt between Jupiter’s ring and upper atmospheric layers. It is believed that Jupiter’s radiation belt is 10 times stronger than Van Allen, which is the radiation belt near Earth. Galileo also studied the winds on Jupiter. It found out that the winds are strong alternating east-west jetstreams, which is dissimilar to Earth’s wind system. The winds on Jupiter below the clouds are 540km/hr (330mph). On Galileo’s mission, there were many important firsts. Galileo had a close flyby of an asteroid, Gaspra. Galileo also discovered a satellite of an asteroid. The satellite was named Dactyl and the asteroid was Ida. Galileo was also the first atmospheric probe to enter Jupiter's atmosphere. The spacecraft was also the first to enter Jupiter’s orbit and go around it. Galileo also directly observed a comet impacting a planet. The comet was Shoemaker-Levy 9. But by far, the most important discovery was discovering liquid ocean water under Europa’s (one of Jupiter’s moons)

Jupiter is a giant gas planet in our solar system. Jupiter is 1300 times the size of Earth. Jupiter weights 317.83 times the mass of Earth. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press 115-137). Jupiter is only 1.33 times dense than water. Jupiter has a giant red hurricane on its surface which has been active for over 200 years and in more than twice the size of Earth. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press 115-137). Jupiter is named after the king of roman god who is also the god of justice. It is a fitting name for the biggest object other than the sun in the solar system. Jupiter’s atmosphere is 96% hydrogen, 3% helium, 0.4% methane, 0.01% ammonia, 0.01% hydrogen Deuteride and 0.0007% ethane. (Chown, M.C 2011 Solar System, Touch Press

As the fourth brightest object in the sky, the knowledge of Jupiter has been around and mildly understood since ancient times. The Ancient Romans named the planet after Jupiter, their god of thunder. The oldest know observations of Jupiter date back to the 7th century BCE Babylonians, located within what is now Iraq, and the information written down within the series of cuneiform archives from their astrologers named the Enuma anu Enlil. Meaning ‘In the days of Anu and Enil’, it contains around 70 tablets, showing the understanding of space of the Ancient Babylonians. Within it, there is evidence that Jupiter was studied for its orbit and impact on Earth. Claudius Ptolemaeus, a Greco-Egyptian 2nd century astronomer, and Aryabhata, an Indian

of other planets such as Saturn or Mars are a great way of studying other planets surfaces

The spacecraft has many research objectives such as creating global maps of Jupiter’s gravity, magnetic fields and the composition of the atmosphere. Juno’s many orbits around the planet will allow for thorough investigation of many different corners of the world. It will be surviving in extremely hostile environments in terms of radiation so it will orbit below the radiation belts.

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest mass object in the solar system of all the other planets. Jupiter is twice the size of all the other planets combined. It is as 318 times the sizes of earth. The distance that Jupiter orbits the sun is 778,330,000 km (Gallant pp154). The diameter is 142,984 km and the mass that it has is 1.900e27 kg. Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky after the Sun, the Moon and Venus. Mars is some times brighter. Galileo discovered Jupiter in 1610(Gallant); another interesting fact is that Jupiter has 4 large moons. Which are known as the Galilean moons. They were named Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. The first mission that went to Jupiter was Pioneer 10 in 1973 and later