Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Apr 3 2006, 09:57 PM
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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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Jan 18 2009, 08:35 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3241 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
hehe, you noticed that too. I've been playing with my own for a few weeks in Celestia. I'll post it when I finish my Jupiter system addon (part 2) in a week or so. For mine, I have been using XYZV files (needs the latest Celestia beta).
for those close-approach tables, you really need spice kernel files, but I believe that JPL Horizons also has this capability, but I haven't given a try. Keep in mind that Juno's camera has a very low spatial resolution, as noted above. In other words, fine for looking at Jupiter, but not very good for looking at the satellites. However, it might be interesting to see if decent science might be possible at Io, to look at it in eclipse and look the brightest hotspots. Given the low-priority of the camera though, I doubt the Juno planners would want to sacrifice time near perijove to look at Io. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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