New Horizons Jupiter Encounter |
New Horizons Jupiter Encounter |
Jun 16 2007, 10:25 AM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Not a lot new for UMSF regular's but it was an excellent lecture and it's fantastic to see these things being recorded and put up on the web. There's a very nice 2 minute clip of the NH launch included that is very cool.
A couple of nuggets that stood out that I wasn't aware of is that the team is basically locking down the Pluto flyby plan over the next couple of months, we should know the approximate sequencing in October. Also the Pluto flyby distance could be as low as 3000km although it will probably be higher and he did inidicate that the initial plan was to fly down the middle between Pluto and Charon. I hadn't realised that it would be so close, for some reason I always assumed the flyby would be at a good few 10's of thousands of km out. |
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Jun 16 2007, 02:45 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Yeah...that is considerably closer than I'd thought as well. For some reason, thought it was around 15,000 km.
The combination of low light & high relative velocity certainly will present a challenge for imaging during C/A. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 2 2007, 03:54 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
We will post the data at PDS as soon as the PDS certifies it. Just posting here to say that, as far as I know, this data is supposed to be made public some time between October 1 (that is, yesterday) and November 1. Data hounds, keep checking http://pdssbn.astro.umd.edu/missions/newhorizons/index.html to see! --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Oct 10 2007, 06:14 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
The initial results from New Horizons Jupiter encounter will be published in this week's issue of Science. Images from and a press release based on these papers are available on the New Horizons home page: http://pluto.jhuapl.edu
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
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May 21 2008, 12:03 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Storm Winds Blow in Jupiter’s Little Red Spot
QUOTE Using data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft and two telescopes at Earth, an international team of scientists has found that one of the solar system’s largest and newest storms – Jupiter’s Little Red Spot – has some of the highest wind speeds ever detected on any planet.
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May 21 2008, 05:55 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
Very interesting. For the record, HST just took a large set of related data http://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.p...st&id=11498
The proposal includes even more observations in July: QUOTE Visit Status Report for 11498
Wed May 21 13:53:03 EDT 2008 Visit Status Targets Configs Start Time End Time 01 Archived JUPITER-PREPASSAGE-WFPC2 WFPC2 May 15 2008 06:49:26 May 15 2008 07:45:43 02 Archived JUPITER-PREPASSAGE-WFPC2 WFPC2 May 15 2008 18:01:04 May 15 2008 18:57:21 03 Archived JUPITER-PREPASSAGE-NICMOS NIC1 NIC2 May 16 2008 03:36:45 May 16 2008 04:35:33 Visit Status Targets Configs Plan Windows 04 Implementation JUPITER-PASSAGE WFPC2 Jun 27, 2008 - Jun 29, 2008 (2008.179 - 2008.181) 05 Implementation JUPITER-POSTPASSAGE-WFPC2 WFPC2 Jul 7, 2008 - Jul 8, 2008 (2008.189 - 2008.190) 06 Implementation JUPITER-POSTPASSAGE-WFPC2 WFPC2 Jul 7, 2008 - Jul 8, 2008 (2008.189 - 2008.190) 07 Implementation JUPITER-POSTPASSAGE-NICMOS NIC1 NIC2 Jul 8, 2008 - Jul 9, 2008 (2008.190 - 2008.191) -------------------- |
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May 17 2017, 05:49 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1887 Joined: 20-November 04 From: Iowa Member No.: 110 |
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