BREAKING...NASA launches Space Probe to analyze Jupiter.

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NASA has attached its next Jupiter-exploring spacecraft to the rocket that will launch the unmanned probe toward the gas giant next week.

Technicians wheeled NASA's Juno probe to its launch pad at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this morning (July 27), then mated the craft to its Atlas 5 launch vehicle.

""If we want to go back in time and understand where we came from and how the planets were made, Jupiter holds the secret, because it's got most of the leftovers after the sun formed," Bolton told reporters today. "We want to know that ingredient list. What we're really after is discovering the recipe for making planets.""

Last Edited by Apotheosis on 07/27/2011 05:26 PM