(Ynet News) Elad Zeret - Dr. Yochai Caspi, 42, a planetary researcher at the Weizmann Institute, and Prof. Ravit Heled, 36, from Tel Aviv University, were a part of the Juno satellite project to study Jupiter. Caspi was at the NASA visitors center in Pasadena, California, to witness when Juno went into orbit around Jupiter. "After over ten years of work, the satellite was travelling at about 200,000 km. an hour as it became the satellite to make the closest pass of Jupiter ever, and then went into an elliptical orbit around the gas giant," he explained. Prof. Heled wasn't able to make it to California as she is expecting to give birth soon, but was talking to her team the entire time via Skype. Now that Juno is in orbit around Jupiter, her work has only just begun. "I'll be looking into the internal structure of the planet," she said.
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