Europa Clipper Development, Build And Prelaunch Activities |
Europa Clipper Development, Build And Prelaunch Activities |
Sep 8 2018, 07:14 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
The spacecraft has entered its preliminary design review phase, so I think it's time to begin discussion of what promises to be a fascinating journey to one of the most interesting destinations in the Solar System. Dr. Robert Pappalardo, the mission's chief scientist, delivered an overview of Europa as well as a top-level description of instrumentation and objectives during a talk tonight at the Griffith Observatory as part of their monthly "All Space Considered" series, so that serves as a good starting point. His presentation starts at 29:35.
As a reminder, please carefully review rule 1.3 before commenting. In fact, please review all of them. Thanks! Europa Clipper Presentation (29:35) -------------------- 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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Sep 9 2018, 02:36 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
One thing that really caught my notice is that they're expecting 0.5m resolution of Europa at selected times/passes. He used the phrase "HiRISE-quality". Was rather surprised by that; I'm assuming that means that at least some of the flyby relative velocities are fairly low.
Characterization of surface roughness at that scale will be enormously helpful for future lander mission planning, of course. I wonder if they'll be able to achieve something similar during the Ganymede & Callisto flybys? -------------------- 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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