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Added on the 05/07/2016 06:26:15 - Copyright : Reuters EN
NASA's Juno spacecraft is in orbit around Jupiter after a tense do-or-die operation. Paul Chapman reports.
NASA's Dr. Michelle Thaller explains the goals and risks, as the agency prepares to put its Juno probe into orbit around Jupiter, in hopes of revealing how the giant planet was formed. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, were listening for a series of tones on Monday night that will inform them whether the Juno spacecraft has successfully performed a maneuver that will allow it to be pulled into orbit around Jupiter.
Staff at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California waited with bated breath as their latest project entered the make or break phase. The agency's latest spaceraft, called Juno after the wife of Jupiter, the Roman king of the gods, blasted off from Cape Canaveral in 2011 and traveled over 400 million miles through our solar system to reach its final destination, the largest planet in our solar neighborhood, Jupiter.
NASA's probe Juno just completed a 1.7 million mile journey to Jupiter. It also completed a Joke 400 years in the making.
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