Juno Probes The Secrets Of Jupiter (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

A wild success, we think, for NASA this week, far far from Earth. On the Fourth of July, the space probe Juno – big as a basketball court – hit a tiny target after a 1.7 billion-mile journey and slipped into the orbit of massive Jupiter. It is fierce out there. It’s the biggest, oldest planet. More than 1000 times the volume of Earth. Its radiation belts are fierce. Its magnetic field is fierce. Its surface is stormy. Its core is a mystery. This hour On Point, the voyage to Jupiter, and what we hope to learn. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/07/08/juno-jupiter-nasa-mission