Jupiter from HiRise, Wow...just wow! Options

[Bob Shaw]

Ikonos also picked up some nice Lunar images - I'll have a look for the link later...

...I wonder whether HiRise will have a good view of Saturn, or indeed A Certain Comet at any point?


Bob Shaw

[Bob Shaw]

My space telescope fantasy, though, would be to end Hubble's mission by putting it in Jupiter orbit somewhere outside Callisto's orbit. Imagine the regular stream of images we'd get with HST being 200 times closer to Jupiter et al than it is now.

I have a liiiiiittle list of candidates (I would say 'volunteers', but that might not be entirely accurate) for the crew of the first Jupiter-orbit HST Servicing Mission... ...no, truth to tell, it's quite a *big* list! Politicos make great crew for risky flights - they're so, well, disposable...


Bob Shaw

[JRehling]

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[Phil Stooke]

Yes, that's a fantasy all right.

Phil

[J.J.]

I apologize for any role I had in this...I had no idea about UMSF's image policy, which I can understand given proprietary concerns. I just thought "cool!" and fired it off; for me to be first would've been too good to be true. Seriously though...I apologize.

I must say that it gave me pause to find nothing about this on any other website (namely this one), sites run by people far deeper into the space probe pipeline than I've ever been.

Speaking of Jupiter, though...I remember a long time time (I mean, like 10 years ago) they were proposing an inexpensive space telescope that would do *nothing* but look at Jupiter. I thought the idea was capital, but like most of the proposed missions that I think are cool, it was never selected. I still think it's a great idea, though...imagine the diffraction-limited movies a space-based 16-incher could give us.

[Bart]

I can't wait to see this Jupiter picture, but in the meantime, some of the posts in this thread got me thinking about other possible targets. It looks to me like MRO could be in a position to take some nifty pictures of Ceres later this year (August-ish) at a resolution near 20 km/pixel. If I did the numbers right, this would be better than the Hubble pictures at the value of 30 km/pixel quoted in wikipedia.

Bart

EDIT: D'oh! My bad! I was off by a factor of 10. Only 200 km/pixel.

[ugordan]

Imagine the regular stream of images we'd get with HST being 200 times closer to Jupiter et al than it is now.

And imagine the downlink rates at Jupiter via Hubble's antenna!

*cough*GALILEO*cough*...

[Decepticon]

this would be better than the Hubble pictures at the value of 30 km/pixel quoted in wikipedia.

I would love to see this!!!!

[Bob Shaw]

And imagine the downlink rates at Jupiter via Hubble's antenna!

*cough*GALILEO*cough*...

That's OK, George and the boys would have erected a nice big hi-gain antenna on an EVA. Hopefully they'd get it to point in the right direction.


Bob shaw

[RubberoidLifefor...]

I wish there was some way these types of threads could be flagged as "hoax", or "no longer valid" or some such wording. The first post mentions images of Jupiter but when I go to the link, there's nothing. I've read through and now understand (I think) what happened, but how about putting a note a the beginning to that effect?

Don't mean to complain - I've enjoyed following the discussions immensly. Also, you might have some mechanism in place that I'm not aware of. If so, please let me know.

Thanks.

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Image have been deleted from where the first link point for the reason you know... since you've red all the thread

[tuvas]

It looks to me like MRO could be in a position to take some nifty pictures of Ceres later this year (August-ish) at a resolution near 20 km/pixel. If I did the numbers right, this would be better than the Hubble pictures at the value of 30 km/pixel quoted in wikipedia.

If, and I stress, if HiRISE were to do such a picture again, one of three things would have to happen.

1. It would have to be an extremely high priority, known about weeks or longer in advance, or
2. It would have to be near the next stellar callibration (Which I beleive is in early July).
3. The object would have to be in Martian orbit (I know there are a few calibration images of Deimos and Phobos, but they are rare).

It is very difficult to plan an image that isn't pointing at Mars, there is a pretty large list of flight rules that have to be check to make sure they aren't violated, stuff like making sure it's not pointed at the sun, etc. The Jupiter image took well over a month to plan, be tested on the OTB (Basically a MRO simulator, used to make sure the spacecraft won't crash), and be uploaded to the spacecraft. I'm not saying it can't happen, just that it would take something pretty important to go through so much hassle.

[djellison]

I wish there was some way these types of threads could be flagged as "hoax", or "no longer valid" or some such wording. The first post....

Indeed - there isn't a specific way to do that, but the initial poster could edit his post to make clear that it's not available anymore.

Doug

[Decepticon]

Will this image be available soon? Was Jupiter imaged at all? Very confusing.

[djellison]

It was imaged, a picture leaked onto a different website, then realised it shouldn't have been made public, so taken off again......and sooner or later HiROC will release it properly

Doug