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  • San Antonio institute gets Jupiter mission

    06/03/2005 1:32:21 PM PDT · by Racehorse · 3 replies · 290+ views
    San Antonio Express-News ^ | 3 June 2005 | Cindy Tumiel
    A team led by the Southwest Research Institute has been selected to build and launch a $700 million NASA probe that will circle the giant planet and gather data about its swirling clouds, rock core, atmospheric gases, auroras and other features. The mission, called Juno, will help scientists explain how matter gathered billions of years ago to form the planets in our solar system, said Scott Bolton, a scientist at the institute and the principal investigator for the mission. [. . .] The spacecraft is scheduled to launch by 2010 and will contain a payload of seven scientific instruments. Two...