Juno go to Jupiter Today.

WASHINGTON - NASA launched its space flight on this day who spend $ 1 billion. The sun-powered aircraft.

The unmanned aircraft carrying a robot named Juno. This robot will perform the journey which took five years to Jupiter in order to find what makes up the solar system's largest planet.

Unmanned satellite observatory is set to enter into an Atlas 5 rocket, blasting off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, conducted today precisely at 11:34 Singapore time.

"Only less than one hour after launch, Juno will be separate from the top of the Atlas rocket V. At this point, Jupiter will be explored within five years and a distance of 2800 million kilometers," said the U.S. space agency, as reported by the Straits Times, Friday (08/05/2011).

Upon arrival at Jupiter in July 2016, the spacecraft is scheduled to orbit the gas giant into the polar regions, which has a mass two times larger than the masses that exist on all the planets in our solar system combined, and is believed to Jupiter is the first formed around the Sun .

The mission aims to explore as much as 30 orbits over a period of one year.

"Juno is intended to get a picture closer to Jupiter than any other NASA spacecraft and will be the first to orbit the planet's poles," said said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator and scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

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