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NASA's solar powered spacecraft to Jupiter breaks distance record
NASA\'s first solar-powered spacecraft Juno to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity\'s most distant solar-powered emissary.
Washington: NASA's first solar-powered spacecraft Juno to Jupiter has broken the record to become humanity's most distant solar-powered emissary.
The probe, launched from the Earth in 2011 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit, achieved the milestone on Wednesday when it was about 793 million km from the Sun.
"Juno is all about pushing the edge of technology to help us learn about our origins," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, in a NASA statement.
The Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter on July 4 this year. It will repeatedly dive between the planet and its intense belts of charged particle radiation, coming only 5,000 km from the cloud tops at closest approach.
"We use every known technique to see through Jupiter's clouds and reveal the secrets Jupiter holds of our solar system's early history. It just seems right that the Sun is helping us learn about the origin of Jupiter and the other planets that orbit it," he explained.
