NH at Jupiter, Planning the Jupiter encounter |
NH at Jupiter, Planning the Jupiter encounter |
Jan 22 2006, 10:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
I think the Jupiter encounter deserves its own thread.
I've just been taking a first look at the Jupiter encounter geometry. You can do the same using Mark Showalter's excellent on-line ephemeris tools at the PDS rings node, which by good fortune happens to include a New Horizons ephemeris (calculated over a year ago) for our actual launch date, January 19th. We'll have an updated ephemeris soon, but this one's already good enough for planning. As Roby72 noted in the Star 48 thread, the satellites are (annoyingly) all on the opposite side of Jupiter at closest approach. We'll still get good views of all sides of Io because Io rotates in only 1.8 days and we'll be pretty close to Jupiter for that long. We'll get fairly good coverage on Europa too, for the same reason. But we won't get very close to Ganymede or Callisto. Luckily Io is our highest priority satellite target and Europa is next, so we'll do OK. |
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Aug 24 2006, 09:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
Hi Folks-
I've just posted lots of details about the New Horizons Jupiter encounter plans here. This page includes a llink to detailed PDF-format Powerpoint presentation that describes exactly what we plan to do, and when, though some details are likely to change, perhaps including some significant cutbacks, during the implementation process. Enjoy! John. |
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Aug 24 2006, 09:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 540 Joined: 25-October 05 From: California Member No.: 535 |
Hi Folks- I've just posted lots of details about the New Horizons Jupiter encounter plans here. This page includes a llink to detailed PDF-format Powerpoint presentation that describes exactly what we plan to do, and when, though some details are likely to change, perhaps including some significant cutbacks, during the implementation process. Enjoy! John. John, can you tell us when the lens cover to LORRI will be opened? Thanks -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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Aug 24 2006, 10:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 701 Joined: 3-December 04 From: Boulder, Colorado, USA Member No.: 117 |
The LORRI lens cap will be opened in about a week, IIRC- we'll be taking some test pictures of Jupiter (only about 100 pixels across) shortly after the grand opening. We're all quite excited to see them...
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