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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Sep 19 2006, 04:07 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 19-July 05 Member No.: 442 |
I find the current 'tussle' on the forum about this missions lack of Jupiter moon photography some what ironic, Pioneer 10/11 were essentially focused almost entirely on Jupiter to the exclusion of the satellites.
The same thing almost happened to Voyager, if the BBC documentary series 'The Planets', was accurate in its description of the 'one man' fight to have the moons included as imaging targets for Voyager. Supposedly until the Io pictures came in the mission team was entirely composed of Atmospheric and Astrophysics specialists ready to unravel the mysteries of the Jovian atmosphere... So in that sense this mission is a return to basics, a focus on the 'main show' namely Jupiter itself rather than what orbits around it. |
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