Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Juno perijoves 2 and 3, October 19 and December 11, 2016 |
Oct 26 2016, 04:44 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 13-October 13 Member No.: 7013 |
A lot has happened and it seemed like a good time to start a new post. We will be staying in 53 day orbits until the project has a full understanding of the risks that may or may not be associated with reducing the orbit period to 14 days per our previous plan.
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Dec 18 2016, 09:17 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
By the equivalence principle "acceleration = gravity", for a non-inertial observer a Minkowski space looks curved, and we are in GR, at least in my understanding.
Investigating Jupiter's gravity field extremely accurately is part of the Juno mission. Otherwise I wouldn't have replied once more. That said, essentially, GR doesn't solve or simplify the labor in my JunoCam processing in the way I had hoped for. |
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Dec 19 2016, 04:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2542 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Investigating Jupiter's gravity field extremely accurately is part of the Juno mission. Some reading on this topic: https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~showman/public...i-etal-2010.pdf No mention of GR. Here's a paper on gravitational lensing by Jupiter: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/378785/meta or https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302294 The radial deflection was 1190 microarcsec = 0.0058 microradians. Lost in the noise for imaging systems. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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