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May 25 2017, 06:19 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/junoteleconference
Many surprises! Jupiter not uniform below clouds! Giant ammonia plume comes up from equator! Core diffuse, possibly dissolving! Magnetic field up close has surprised! Congrats on the amateur images everyone! -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 27 2018, 07:55 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2087 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
Well we had the Galileo probe, which went right through the cloud tops (and below!) in 1995. Do you mean the lowest possible orbit?
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Feb 27 2018, 08:54 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 13-November 14 Member No.: 7308 |
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Feb 28 2018, 04:16 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
The Galileo Probe had no camera. There's no guarantee that a view from inside the clouds would be interesting, or – even if beautiful – scientifically rewarding, and it would have been a very expensive instrument needing a lot of bandwidth during a very short time window.
The Galileo Orbiter returned some very nice images of Jupiter's clouds, but Juno is producing a more stunning gallery, thanks to people on this board and others. There were no programmatic scientific investigations for JunoCam, but it seems increasingly likely that there'll be scientific value had from them sooner or later. |
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Feb 28 2018, 06:44 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2517 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
The Galileo Probe had no camera... it would have been a very expensive instrument needing a lot of bandwidth during a very short time window. There was actually a proposal for a low-cost camera that fit within the data allocation for the Galileo probe, but it wasn't selected. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Feb 28 2018, 06:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1729 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
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