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for centuries we studied the planet Jupiter with instruments like this but
if you're like me and I know I am you want to know more and in order to know
more we've got to get a spacecraft up close but Jupiter is fantastically far
away way out there so how do we do it so if you're like me you want to know more
about all those planets out there so to that end we built the Juno spacecraft to
study the planet Jupiter Juno was Jupiter's wife in Roman mythology and we
launched the Juno spacecraft from Earth way back in 2011 now like everything
else the government does we were on a budget so we had to use a rocket that
already existed so we chose a good ol Atlas 5 we launched it from the earth
way out into space beyond the orbit of Mars and today it's falling back toward
the earth and we're gonna use the orbital motion of the earth and this
flyby of the Juno spacecraft to get enough energy to escape the pull of the
earth and more importantly the pole of the Sun like this but see it's in outer
space there's no air so there's no sound so it goes like this and it's gonna fly
by the earth on October night now Jupiter isn't as close as these two
planets on this table Cooper is way out there fantastically far out there
it's that far away so Juno won't arrive there until 2016 in 2016 it will go into
orbit around Jupiter and using its suite of sophisticated instruments Juno will
study this planet will learn more about what Jupiter's made of and how it formed
and when we learn that will know more about where we came from how we all got
here with this small spacecraft we could dare I say it change the world