Juno at Jupiter, mission events as they unfold |
Juno at Jupiter, mission events as they unfold |
Jul 5 2016, 07:53 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
This topic will consist of discussion of Juno operations post-JOI until end of mission, currently anticipated in Feb 2018.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Feb 28 2017, 03:35 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
A tweet from Laurie Cantillo quotes Scot Bolton (Juno PI) as saying: "We thought we understood Jupiter, but we didn't. It's going to be very different from what we thought."
I didn't find any abstracts related to Juno on today's program, but Bolton did drop some new (to me, at least) tidbits in an interview on Texas Public Radio. QUOTE We don't see anything that looks like a core. There may be a core of heavy elements in there, but it might not be all concentrated in the middle. So that was the first picture that started to go out the window. And we started to say, you know, what would the core be like? Maybe it's much larger? Maybe it's half the size of Jupiter? How could that be? QUOTE The whole thing looks different than what anyone thought. I mean every way we have looked, we have been shocked by what what we've seen …. ... And that is a really big deal. We don't know much about giant planets is what we realized. And if they're built differently than we think, then it means maybe we don't understand how solar systems are made up in the first place …." More at the link: http://tpr.org/post/juno-spacecraft-rewrit...upiter#stream/0 (originally posted in wrong thread by accident, apologies to those who end up reading it twice.) |
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