NASA's Juno, Armored Tank Heading For Jupiter

coondoggie writes "When it comes to ensuring that its upcoming Juno spacecraft can survive its mission, NASA is surrounding the spacecraft's electronic innards with titanium to ward off mission-threatening radiation. Juno's so-called radiation vault weighs about 200 kilograms (500 pounds), has walls that measure about a square meter (nearly 9 square feet) in area, about 1 centimeter (a third of an inch) in thickness, and 18 kilograms (40 pounds) in mass. About the size of an SUV's trunk — encloses Juno's command and data handling box, power and data distribution unit and about 20 other electronic assemblies, according to NASA."

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Re:Unit conversions

[Flea of Pain]

Technically yes, because the square root of 1 is still 1. See, you take the square root of your area to determine your side length. For example, if I give you something 2 meters long, and two meters wide, it will have an area of 4 square meters. Try it with shreddies if you are still confused.