Europa Flyby - PJ45, September 29, 2022 |
Europa Flyby - PJ45, September 29, 2022 |
Sep 13 2022, 02:58 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1276 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Juno is set to flyby of Europa on Sept. 29, 2022 (PJ45)
I can't wait to see the results of this flyby! Sadly not much information is available online. Jason Has a beautiful animation of encounter on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9bx1GcoqEE...nel=volcanopele |
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Oct 3 2022, 04:44 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
These JUNO images are fantastic, especially since they cover parts of Europa not well seen by Voyager and Galileo at good resolution. It gives also nice context to some late Galileo mosaics, especially from orbits I25 and E26. The I25 mosaic has been used to fill a gap in most maps, but I have never seen the E26FLOWS01 mosaic used in any map, probably because the poor resolution of the background impaired to locate it precisely. This is now possible thanks to JUNO. There is somewhere another pic extending E26FLOWS to the North-East, but I could not find it. I copied the Galileo mosaics from: https://rgcps.asu.edu/Galileo/ (from ASU), one of the rare site where Galileo pics can still be found (at least by me). One disappointment is that the new images do not help to definitively solve the question of the nature of Midir, a probable big impact scare.
These are some personal thoughts. Thanks to all of you who processed these images. It is a real pleasure to go through them. Take care and stay healthy. Best regards, Marc. |
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