Juno's finally made it to Jupiter! It'll take years to go through all the data that spacecraft is going to beam back to earth. Personally, I hope they find out more about it's big red spot. But the first sets of pictures are coming back. Quite the camera Juno has for whizzing through our solar system at 130,000 mph!
You may have heard Juno also broke a speed record! Juno is the record holder for top speed while orbiting a planet (geocentric orbit), the record for top speed through the solar system (heliocentric orbit) goes to Helios 1. Launched back in the 80's Helios 1 orbits the sun at 147,600 mph.
You may have heard Juno also broke a speed record! Juno is the record holder for top speed while orbiting a planet (geocentric orbit), the record for top speed through the solar system (heliocentric orbit) goes to Helios 1. Launched back in the 80's Helios 1 orbits the sun at 147,600 mph.
Here's a fun science tid-bit! We stuck 6 people in a small 36 x 20 foot tall dome on a mountain volcano in Hawaii for science and told them to act like they were on mars. I love it.
The Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) is the 3rd, and longest study of it's kind. The experiment lasted a year and was conducted to test the mental strain it would take on it's volunteers. All in hopes we learn something useful for NASA's eventual Mars missions, or even the Mars One colony.
So what did we learn?
So what did we learn?