Week in Geek – Jupiter or bust
Launching from Earth in 2011, the Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter in 2016 to study the giant planet from an elliptical, polar orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL
My weekly post for The Rachel Maddow Show.
Week in Geek: Jupiter or bust edition
This year’s 4th of July will have a different kind of fireworks happening while you’re lounging by the pool or grilling up some hamburgers. These fireworks will be more like particle showers asNASA’s Juno spacecraft enters orbit around Jupiter and is blasted charged particles swirling through the planet’s magnetosphere.
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