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 21 2006, 06:18 PM
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I've watched the relevant episode again ('Terra Firma') and it's definitely implied that the argument was not about having cameras on Voyager, but about where they were going to be pointed when Voyager reached Jupiter. I have to be more specific. The cameras initially planned for MJS 77 were a simpler design than the ones finally flown (lower resolution, more noise etc.). It was because the moons were a high priority they switched to the best ones available (Mariner 10) in about the 1972/73 timeframe. So long before launch the interest in the moons forced some design changes. This said, I am sure there have been long discussion about where to point the scan platform during the encounters, sometimes the planet scientist won, sometime the moon nerds. Analyst |
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Sep 24 2006, 12:26 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: 13-August 05 Member No.: 464 |
Given Junocam's heritage from MSL's MARDI, I wonder how will it cope with the radiation environment around Jupiter; I seem to remember something about a giant tantalum block shield for SSI, though Juno's orbit is more benign than Galileo's, and it doesn't have to last very long.
For inner moons like Io and Europa, any estimates of the sort of resolution that might be expected, given the 15km per pixel officially provided for images of Jupiter's poles? |
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