Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
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I thought that it was time to start a new thread devoted to the JUNO Jupiter
Orbiter mission. This New Frontiers Mission #2 seems to be a "stealth" project with little information available on the Web. In fact, the official NASA JUNO web site is quite pitiful. It contains the minimal amount of information on what seems to be an intriguing mission, in terms of both science and engineering. Does the UMSF community have information on this mission that has not been widely seen before? Another Phil |
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My dream shot: Close up of the Great Red spot. This requires that the Red Spot be underneath the orbital track on an orbit in which the remote sensing instruments point at Jupiter. [For most orbits, the remote sensing instruments will not be pointed directly at the cloud deck, and the orbit will be dedicated to fields and particles and gravity measurements.]. Unlikely, but one can dream...
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This requires that the Red Spot be underneath the orbital track on an orbit in which the remote sensing instruments point at Jupiter. The spacecraft is spinning all the time, and Junocam points at the planet once per revolution, so this is not as unlikely as you might think. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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