NASA’s Juno mission has arrived at Jupiter. Find out more with Neil and Sian as they look at how the world’s media is reacting and the words you need to talk about the story.
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NASA has confirmed that the Juno spacecraft has entered into orbit around Jupiter after a five-year journey from Earth.
Scientists burst into applause when a signal sent back across 800 million kilometres of space confirmed the spacecraft's engine had fired for 35 minutes.
The $1.1bn probe will circle Jupiter for 20 months.
Rebecca Morelle – BBC News
We have been to Jupiter before. We've flown past it quite a few times – the first time way back in the 70s – but this is taking us closer in than we've ever been before and that's what makes this mission so risky because Jupiter is an incredibly hostile world.
The weather there's terrible. It has radiation streaming off of it, which is kind of going to absolutely battle the on-board electronics on the spacecraft.
But, we don't know so many things about it. We want to actually peer beneath the clouds for the first time to see what actually lies at the planet's core.
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I love how Sean Says Jupiter! 😀
please also show subtitles with each story
A Korean is here!
I've learned a lot from this video,thanks
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Awesome video! 😉
hugs from Brazil 🇧🇷
It happens that I saw Pluto in the Solar System that Neil showed to us. Is Pluto a planet again? or still a dwarf planet.
Great! Thanks
Thanks for the video! Great work!
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Sian is so beautiful. She looks more confident recently.
wow!! it's very interesting!!