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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Nov 2 2006, 03:39 PM
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Juno's camera has been quoted on their website as having a 15km resolution. Does anyone know at what distance that resolution occurs? Is it over the poles or a perijove?
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Nov 3 2006, 12:18 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 17-September 06 From: USA Member No.: 1151 |
Juno's camera has been quoted on their website as having a 15km resolution. Does anyone know at what distance that resolution occurs? Is it over the poles or a perijove? Should be over the poles -- JunoCam's reason for existence (well, OK, aside from EPO value...) is for gathering polar mosaics. I don't think anybody's exactly sure (yet) whether or not JunoCam will even produce usable images at perijove, due to the radiation environment there. Lorne -------------------- Lorne Ipsum, Chief Geek
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Nov 3 2006, 08:33 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
If the perijove is well inside Io's orbit, doesn't that mean much lower radiation fluxes? Also, flying over the poles you're basically above/below the main radiation belts, right?
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