Juno Spacecraft To Carry Three Lego Figurines

Three LEGO porcelain representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei are given away voguish aboard the Juno spacecraft. "Juno spacecraft to catch three porcelain to Jupiter ball"Imperial 4th, 2011 JPL/NASAThree LEGO porcelain representing the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno and Galileo Galilei are given away voguish aboard the Juno spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSCNASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft life-force catch the 1.5-inch evenness of Galileo Galilei, the Roman god Jupiter and his wife Juno to Jupiter once the spacecraft launches this Friday, Aug. 5. The area of the three mini-statues, or porcelain, is qualities of a joint outreach and literary program full-grown as qualities of the affair with NASA and the LEGO Multitude to launch genus to research science, technology, activity and calculation.In Greek and Roman myths, Jupiter drew a obfuscate of clouds globular himself to mask his trouble. From Fitting Olympus, Juno was able to rival passing through the clouds and expose Jupiter's amend place. Juno holds a magnifying windowpane to humble her search for the truth, to the same extent her ensemble holds a lightning block. The third LEGO strap adherent is Galileo Galilei, who ready out of the ordinary climax discoveries about Jupiter, plus the four principal satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his integrity). Of course, the exhaustive Galileo has his lessen together with him on the meander.The predict skylight for Juno opens Aug. 5 and extends passing through Aug. 26. For an Aug. 5 liftoff, the predict panel opens at 8:34 a.m. PDT (11:34 a.m. EDT) and open fire on forthright passing through 9:43 a.m. PDT (12:43 p.m. EDT). The spacecraft is assumed to property at Jupiter in 2016. The charge life-force explore the gas giant's origins, organization, hunch and magnetosphere. Juno's color camera life-force furnish close-up images of Jupiter, plus the first bursting expression of the planet's poles.NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno charge for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Homework Inception in San Antonio. The Juno charge is qualities of the New Frontiers Show managed at NASA's Marshall Extent Course Convoluted in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Extent Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Open benefit from for the charge is the working group of NASA's Open Amenities Show at the Kennedy Extent Convoluted in Florida. JPL is a rift of the California Inception of Gear in Pasadena.Juno arrangement to predict...off to Jupiter