Welcome to Jupiter!

[thomhartmann]

[tonyt53]

1. This is good stuff!

[zebonaut]

2. My guess: Life in the warm clouds. Floaters. Sinkers. Balloons that are alive in the atmosphere.

[trueblue2007]

3. WELCOME TO JUPITER !!

WELCOME TO THE PLANET JUPITER!! Jul 6, 2016
Dr. Leroy Chiao PhD, Former NASA Astronaut & International Space Station Commander joins Thom. Earlier today, NASAs "Juno" spacecraft successfully reached Jupiter and entered the gas giants orbit. Scott Bolton - principle investigator for the Juno mission described his relief when orbit was achieved - telling The Guardian that "There's a mixture of tension and anxiety because this is such a critical manoeuvre … The rocket motor has to burn at the right time, in the right direction, for just the right amount of time.” It took the spaceship 5 years to make the 1.8 billion mile trip from Earth to Jupiter and The Juno probe is equipped with 29 sensors and 9 instruments that will study the planet for the next 20 months. The probe will be making a map of the planet before its instruments finally fail and the probe falls to Jupiter's surface.