(July 4, 2016, 11:20 p.m.) -- As carried LIVE on LBREPORT.com, the United States (via NASA) has put a spacecraft in orbit around the planet Jupiter, over 300 million miles from Earth. The mission is significant for all humankind, as it could shed light on the origins of our solar system...and of our own planet.
LBREPORT.com carried LIVE video of the event via NASA-TV. We think Benjamin Franklin (a scientist in addition to co-signing the Declaration of Independence) would be proud of what's scheduled 240 years to the day after he joined in the revolutionary act that created our country. On August 5, 2011, the United States (through NASA) sent a spacecraft on a mission to Jupiter, the largest and in some ways our solar system's most scientifically intriguing planets. They named the spacecraft "Juno" for the Greek/Roman mythological goddess who could see through a veil of clouds behind which her husband, Jupiter, hid his mischief. The Juno spacecraft, now in orbit around Jupiter at a mind-boggling 300+ million miles from Earth, is now poised to peer through Jupiter's clouds in ways that may help explain the origins of our solar system. [Scroll down for further.] |
[NASA text] After an almost five-year journey to the solar system's largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter's orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT) Monday, July 4.
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