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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Starship-Style Earth Fly-By From Jupiter-Bound Probe | Video




"No previous view of our world has ever captured the heavenly waltz of Earth and moon."
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-360
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When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth, it received a boost in speed of mor...e than 8,800 mph which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter.
 
Juno’s closest approach was over South Africa at about 561 kilometers (349 miles).
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)
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Juno is a NASANew Frontiers mission to the planet Jupiter. Juno was launched fro...m Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 5, 2011.[3] The spacecraft is to be placed in a polar orbit to study the planet's composition, gravity field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. Juno will also search fo...