Kristie Mazzoni and Kyra Elliott, Director and Assistant Director of the Travelers ScienceDome Planetarium at The Children's Museum, will be attending the launch of NASA's Juno spacecraft on Friday, August 5th. The Travelers ScienceDome Planetarium and The Children's Museum are excited that their planetarium staff, invited by NASA’s Museum Alliance, will experience this launch first hand. Juno will be blasting off aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket between 11:34 AM and 12:33 PM Eastern Time from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Juno is an unmanned space probe that will travel to Jupiter. It is scheduled to arrive in July of 2016. Upon its arrival it will begin to study our solar system's largest planet. Juno will orbit Jupiter thirty-three times and study the interior of the planet as well as the behavior of the planet's atmosphere and magnetosphere. NASA hopes to reveal new information about Jupiter that could help scientists understand the development of our Solar System.
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