About the time 4th of July fireworks are coming to an end on the East Coast of the US, the giant Juno spacecraft will wake up after a 5-year journey to Jupiter and begin a 35-minute engine burn that slow down the fastest object ever launched from earth so it can be captured around this solar system’s largest planet, Jupiter. Scientists hope that at 23:06, Juno will phone home that the engine burn is complete and the proper speed has been achieved. That message will take 48 minutes to travel the 5.7 million miles to reach NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Juno will then orbit Jupiter for about 20 months, circling in 37 highly-elliptical orbits bringing the spacecraft as close as within 3100 miles and as distant as 2,000,000 miles from the planet’s surface. Each orbit will bring it closer and closer until on orbit #37, Juno will burn up in the dense atmosphere. Juno was launched nearly 5 years ago. The 4-ton spacecraft was launched in an awkward-looking configuration atop an Atlas V rocket with 5 extra solid rocket boosters strapped to the outsides to give it sufficient thrust for the 5-year voyage to Jupiter. What are scientists interested in discovering on Jupiter? How far down does the Giant Red Spot extend? O What causes it to be there, swirling with wind speeds of between 430 and 680 miles per hour – 3 to 4 times greater than the strongest earthbound tornadoes. Another unusual feature of Jupiter - which is 3 times larger than the next-largest planet, Saturn – is the powerful magnetic field – so powerful that it creates gigantic glowing auroras around its poles. Could it be that the giant planet – nearly large enough to have developed into another sun – creates pressures so great deep inside its interior that the liquid hydrogen which comprises 75% of its mass, is compressed so tightly that it becomes metallic – something that has never been observed on earth, but is known as “the holy grail of high-pressure physics.” Metallic hydrogen would probably be a superconductor and could be responsible for the immense magnetic and radiation field that surrounds the planet. Other theories hypothesize that at these pressures, entirely new states of matter called superconducting superfluids and metallic superfluids may exist. No matter the cause, the Juno spacecraft will carefully try to avoid the most powerful areas in Jupiter’s radiation field lest its instrument be fried before it can begin transmitting scientific data in October. To try to preserve those instruments for as long as possible, many are secured inside a radiation vault made of 2-inch-thick titanium walls and about 36 inches on a side. Juno is expected to experience radiation levels equivalent to 100 million dental x-rays. The possibilities for scientific breakthroughs abounds in this, the most dangerous - and next-to-last of NASA’s interplanetary missions. The last NASA interplanetary mission will come to an end next year when the Cassini spacecraft, first launched in 1997, will return to Saturn and eventually crash into it in what scientists call the Grand Finale. I’m Still reporting from Washington. Good day.

Visit our website now: http://www.billstill.com - considered by informed insiders’ as THE ultimate resource for fixing the National Debt problem and surviving Economic or Financial Collapse/Crash and attaining the unvarnished truth about Washington and today’s United States Political Climate. Good morning, I’m still reporting on Anti-Trump Protesters Paid $35 Per Hour The forces of disruption and anarchy are preparing for a so-called “massive demonstration” on January 20th to try to disrupt Donald Trump’s inauguration. Check this out: [insert] Yup, wear black and disrupt. That’s their motto. Oh, be sure to wear thermal underwear, because Jan. 20th is typically the coldest day of the year in Washington, and the National Mall is a big, wide-open space through which the cold wind off the Potomac blows. And you are going to have to walk a long way to find a place to get warm. Now, if you are arrested - which is quite possible – at least you’ll be out of the cold. But then your future earning power will be significantly reduced for the rest of your life. Of course, you won’t realize this for another 20 years. This quote from the first paragraph of this webpage: “It must be made clear to the whole world that the vast majority of people in the United States do not support his presidency or consent to his rule.” If that was true, then you certainly wouldn’t have to be paying protesters $35 per hour, to be there, now would you? You wouldn’t have to be bussing in protesters either now would you? The DC metro area is filled with willing protesters for just about any cause. But they are also smart enough to know not to come down to the Mall on Jan. 20th unless you really have a need to be uncomfortable. I was on the Mall for the big anti-Vietnam-war protests of the early 1970s. No one had to be paid. Most of us were not particularly anti-war, either. It was just a big happening on the Mall and everyone wanted to go check it out. Well, over a million people showed up. I pushed my way to the front just because even then, I was interested in what makes things tick. But when I got to the front I was astonished to find that there where only a couple hundred SDS violence-prone radicals throwing rocks and bottles at a slow-moving wedge of a couple hundred cops coming down Constitution Avenue. That’s when I learned the word – “agent provocateur” – people trying to bring about a major riot by provoking a violent reaction from the police. Well, that didn’t work, but for most of us, that was our first taste of tear gas. The vast majority of the crowd was just there to listen to a star-studded group of acts from Janis Joplin to a rumored appearance by Jimi Hendrix. We would have paid to be there. Certainly no one had to pay us. Call it apathy, or call it common sense with a dash of anti-war sentiment because most of us were facing the draft back then. Flash forward to today. I live quietly surrounded by Democrats. The lifespan of my Trump signs were measured in days, not weeks. But will my Democrat neighbors take to the streets now? No way. They accept the American tradition of peaceful transition of power. Their attitude is our woman lost, so we’ll see how Trump does. He probably won’t be so bad. To my international audience, don’t believe what you see on TV. In my travels since the election – which were significant last week – I have seen exactly ZERO protesters, anywhere. Most people are excited by the prospect of Trump. They see Trump as a change president who finally will drain the corruption swamp of lobbyists that now encircles Congress. And what about prosecuting those who are supplying the millions of dollars to fund these riots going on today? Well, brother Obama is still in power. But this changes as of noon on Friday, January 20th. Thereafter, I expect several resignations at the Justice Department and the FBI, and then the indictments will begin to flow as the rule of law reinstates itself after a long absence in Washington. Connect with Bill Still: https://www.youtube.com/user/bstill3 https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BillStill http://billstills.blogspot.in/ https://twitter.com/billstill https://www.facebook.com/BillStillOfficial https://www.pinterest.com/billstills/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/billstill http://billstills.tumblr.com/ https://billstills.wordpress.com/ https://www.diigo.com/profile/billstill https://www.reddit.com/user/billstills/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/billstillss Consider becoming a cherished sponsor: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3204630 https://youtu.be/QpeSacBp3Jo