{"id":19272,"date":"2016-08-28T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T16:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasas-juno-orbiter-makes-its-closest-encounter-with-jupiter-check-out-the-view\/"},"modified":"2016-08-28T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T16:12:48","slug":"nasas-juno-orbiter-makes-its-closest-encounter-with-jupiter-check-out-the-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasas-juno-orbiter-makes-its-closest-encounter-with-jupiter-check-out-the-view\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Juno orbiter makes its closest encounter with Jupiter: Check out the view!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_270413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270413\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-270413\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160828-juno-jupiter-stryk-630x839.png\" alt=\"Jupiter's north polar region is coming into view as NASA's Juno spacecraft approaches the planet. This view was captured on Aug. 27 from a distance of 437,000 miles (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Ted Stryk).\" width=\"630\" height=\"839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160828-juno-jupiter-stryk-630x839.png 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160828-juno-jupiter-stryk.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-270413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jupiter\u2019s north polar region is coming into view as NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft approaches the planet. This view was captured on Aug. 27 from a distance of 437,000 miles (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Ted Stryk).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft made its closest scheduled swing over the cloud tops of the giant planet Jupiter today&nbsp;\u2013 and sent back pictures.<\/p>\n<p>The solar-powered probe zoomed about 2,600 miles above the clouds at a speed of 130,000 mph, at 6:44 a.m. PT, NASA said. It was the first close encounter since Juno entered Jovian orbit on July 4, 53 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly&nbsp;post-flyby telemetry indicates that everything worked as planned, and Juno is firing on all cylinders,\u201d Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a status update.<\/p>\n<p>Juno had all of its science instruments turned on, plus its JunoCam visible-light imager. Hours after the encounter,&nbsp;NASA released a picture of Jupiter that was snapped during today\u2019s approach from a distance of 437,000 miles. Even closer views are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The closest close-ups are expected to provide the best&nbsp;views of the Jovian atmosphere we\u2019ve ever seen.&nbsp;There should also be some great glimpses of Jupiter\u2019s north and south poles, NASA says.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Juno to Reveal Jupiter's Violent Past\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_NqbRcwWwPw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JunoCam was included on Juno\u2019s payload primarily for public outreach purposes. The $1.1 billion mission\u2019s primary science objectives are to study the planet\u2019s magnetic and gravitational fields, and to determine its interior composition.<\/p>\n<p>Interpreting the science data from this first pass is likely to take some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are getting some intriguing early data returns as we speak,\u201d said Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist from the Southwest Research Institute who serves as the mission\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cIt will take days for all the science data collected during the flyby to be downlinked, and even more to begin to comprehend what Juno and Jupiter are trying to tell us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Juno is in a long, looping orbit that takes it through a close encounter only every few weeks. Thirty-five more close flybys are scheduled during the prime mission, which runs through February 2018. But none of those flybys is expected to be closer than this one.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft was launched in 2011 and took almost five years to get to Jupiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter\u2019s north polar region is coming into view as NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft approaches the planet. This view was captured on Aug. 27 from a distance of 437,000 miles (Credit: NASA \/ JPL-Caltech \/ SwRI \/ MSSS \/ Ted Stryk). 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