Happy Jupiter Orbital Insertion Day!!
The creatively named Juno is going to enter Jovian orbit on Monday, which entails diving through Jupiter's hugely strong van Allen belt equivalent and radiating the fuck out of shit.
Gonna get some sweet pictures of the system assuming the probe doesn't bug out.
Hell yeah
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- A gravity/radio science system (Gravity Science)
- A six-wavelength microwave radiometer for atmospheric sounding and composition (MWR)
- A vector magnetometer (MAG)
- Plasma and energetic particle detectors (JADE and JEDI)
- A radio/plasma wave experiment (Waves)
- An ultraviolet imager/spectrometer (UVS)
- An infrared imager/spectrometer (JIRAM)
that's right fuckers, a fucking vector magnetometerbitchin