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Why Is Nasa Sent A Spacecraft To Mars
Grant Kawell Kawell
Grade 8 Science
Mr.Lowen
3 March 2017
Period 1
NASA
NASA sent a spacecraft to Mars. Early in the morning they started to receive a series of beeps which means it has made it to Mars. This spacecraft was called Juno . It took a totle of 5 years for this craft to make it to Mars when it left in 2011 out of Florida. This aircraft has traveled so many miles it, it traveled around 1.8 billion miles. Juno is now doing a orbit around Mars. This is the closest an aircraft has ever been to Mars.
Nasa now is working on getting Juno to Jupiter. Juno got close enough to snap a picture of the north side of Jupiter

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