FOX: While Americans are anticipating a national holiday on Monday, July 4— and a day off from work— NASA is holding a countdown of its own, marking the days, hours, minutes and seconds until its Juno spacecraft arrives at Jupiter on the same day.
Juno blasted off nearly five years ago, in August 2011. And when it arrives at Jupiter on July 4th, it will be traveling insanely fast— about 165,000 mph at first, and later even 168,000 mph, measured relative to Earth. And that, NASA says, makes it the fastest human-made object ever, if measured relative to Earth.
But the patriotic arrival date is a happy coincidence- more
Thank goodness NASA has all those feral izlamic savages!
Otherwise the probe would have landed on Mercury or somewhere else.
Feral izlamic savages have provided so much benefit to civilization, that we’d’a never invented the paper-clip, the motorcar, computers, or gotten men to the Moon, or …
izlamo delenda est …
What a cool picture of Jupiter.
I’ll never forgive Obama for what he did to NASA.
@MM
Just wait. For one, that pic isn’t from Juno, and for two, Juno has a proper hi-res visible-light camera aboard; something no other spacecraft has carried.