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Juno launch by an Atlas V rocket -08/2011

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-lus06-20300

Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 25 cm

Frost breaks away from the first stage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 launch vehicle carrying NASA's Juno planetary probe as it lifts off the pad at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The frost forms when the stage is filled with its supercold liquid oxygen fuel. Liftoff was at 12:25 p.m. EDT Aug. 5. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core.

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2011 - ATLAS - ATLAS 5 - CAPE CANAVERAL - FLORIDA - JUNO - KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - LAUNCH - LAUNCH PAD - LAUNCHER - ROCKET - SPACE CENTER -