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Author: | timesofearth |
Published: | 2011-08-06 10:08:03 |
timesofearth.com Florida - NASA has launched an unmanned spacecraft t' Jupiter t' collect data on how t' planets in our solar system were formed, reports t' AFP news agency. Arrr! T' probe, arrr, named Juno after t' wife o' t' Roman god Jupiter, launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:25pm (16:25 GMT) on Friday. Well, blow me down! T' craft will travel around t' sun for two years before settin' course for Jupiter - which it will reach in July 2016. By t' journey's end, Juno will have travelled more than 716-million kilometres. Blimey! Jupiter, ya bilge rat, t' fifth planet from t' sun, was described by a NASA television commentator as "a planetary piece o' t' puzzle on t' beginnin' o' our solar system". When Juno reaches its final destination, it will orbit at roughly 5000km and utilise a host o' instruments t' learn more about t' planet. NASA wants t' map its magnetic field, determine how much water it contains and identify what makes up t' planet's core. "We're really lookin' for t' recipe for planet formation," Scott Bolton, Juno's lead scientist, said. Well, blow me down! "We're goin' after t' ingredients o' Jupiter by gettin' t' water abundance as well as very precise measurements o' t' gravity field that will help us understand whether thar's a core o' heavy elements or a core o' rocks in t' middle o' Jupiter." T' measurements will help scientists determine what t' early solar system looked like and how Jupiter, arrr, believed t' be t' first planet t' form, was created, ya bilge rat, reports Reuters news agency ...
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