Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Juno development, launch, and cruise, Including Earth flyby imaging Oct 9 2013 |
Apr 3 2006, 09:57 PM
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I thought that it was time to start a new thread devoted to the JUNO Jupiter
Orbiter mission. This New Frontiers Mission #2 seems to be a "stealth" project with little information available on the Web. In fact, the official NASA JUNO web site is quite pitiful. It contains the minimal amount of information on what seems to be an intriguing mission, in terms of both science and engineering. Does the UMSF community have information on this mission that has not been widely seen before? Another Phil |
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Apr 11 2006, 09:43 AM
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"It describes an instrument for Juno..."
It looks to me like they're trying to persuade NASA to squeeze it on the mission. It would be much the same way the X-ray fluroescence instrument was added to the Viking's biology dominated payload after formal instrument selection was done, but Mariner 9 discovered an unexpectedly complicated and active geology. The instrument ended up with some significant compromizes from being squeezed onboard, but did a fine job anyway. I really hope we do have good data from Junocam and / or that this proposed instrument flies. I've wanted to see more and better of the polar regions "boiling porridge" (as I call it) that we saw in Pioneer 11 data and get some good info on it's motions right up to the poles (impossible from equatorial missions). |
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