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post Sep 8 2018, 07:14 AM
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The spacecraft has entered its preliminary design review phase, so I think it's time to begin discussion of what promises to be a fascinating journey to one of the most interesting destinations in the Solar System. Dr. Robert Pappalardo, the mission's chief scientist, delivered an overview of Europa as well as a top-level description of instrumentation and objectives during a talk tonight at the Griffith Observatory as part of their monthly "All Space Considered" series, so that serves as a good starting point. His presentation starts at 29:35.

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Jaro_in_Montreal
post Aug 20 2019, 04:31 PM
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BTW, I remember reading a detailed Europa Clipper mission proposal somewhere, but now I can't find it in my files.
Anybody here remember where it was posted?
A quick Google search came up empty.
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post Aug 21 2019, 02:41 AM
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Maybe this is the one you were thinking of?

https://smd-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/science-r...S_Sept_2016.pdf

One thing that catches my eye is that virtually all of Europa would be mapped at better than 30m per pixel with a median of about 9m per pixel. Due to orbital mechanics that are easy to visualize (flybys just inside or outside of Europa's orbit), there is a rough 180° periodicity in the coverage with the sub-jovian and anti-jovian regions imaged with the best resolution and the leading and trailing regions imaged with the worst resolution. This is approximately 10 times higher resolution than Viking coverage of Mars.
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- nprev   Europa Clipper Development   Sep 8 2018, 07:14 AM
- - vjkane   QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 8 2018, 12:14 AM) Dr. ...   Sep 8 2018, 02:56 PM
- - nprev   One thing that really caught my notice is that the...   Sep 9 2018, 02:36 AM
- - antipode   Oh dear, according to the latest PEN newsletter, t...   Mar 5 2019, 09:33 PM
- - nprev   Do you have a link to that, Antipode? Didn't f...   Mar 5 2019, 09:45 PM
- - antipode   PLANETARY EXPLORATION NEWSLETTER Volume 13, Number...   Mar 5 2019, 10:47 PM
|- - MahFL   QUOTE (antipode @ Mar 5 2019, 10:47 PM) P...   Mar 6 2019, 06:07 AM
- - nprev   Thank you. Bad news indeed. However, it does seem...   Mar 6 2019, 04:03 AM
- - Explorer1   Too bad; luckily, JUICE will definitely carry a ma...   Mar 6 2019, 05:17 AM
- - Bjorn Jonsson   I noticed that according to the PEN newsletter, a ...   Mar 6 2019, 09:05 PM
|- - JRehling   Since JUICE and EC will run concurrently, it would...   Mar 7 2019, 07:28 AM
- - Steve5304   This isn't Clipper. That's the Euro missio...   Mar 7 2019, 03:57 PM
|- - JRehling   The latest review of Europa Clipper and Europa Lan...   Jun 6 2019, 04:51 AM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jun 5 2019, 08:51 PM) T...   Jun 8 2019, 03:01 AM
- - Jaro_in_Montreal   Yaay !! https://www.nasa.gov/feature/euro...   Aug 20 2019, 01:01 AM
- - Jaro_in_Montreal   BTW, I remember reading a detailed Europa Clipper ...   Aug 20 2019, 04:31 PM
|- - JRehling   Maybe this is the one you were thinking of? https...   Aug 21 2019, 02:41 AM
- - nprev   Panel discussion tomorrow (23 Oct 19) about Clippe...   Oct 23 2019, 06:23 AM
- - Explorer1   I didn't want to start a new topic in the book...   Apr 22 2021, 08:33 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Apr 22 2021, 12:33 PM)...   Apr 22 2021, 08:53 PM
|- - JRehling   Richard Greenberg's books about the science of...   Apr 23 2021, 12:12 AM
- - scalbers   Nice talk by Bob Pappalardo on Europa Clipper was ...   May 24 2021, 07:54 PM
- - volcanopele   Europa Clipper now has a launch vehicle: a SpaceX ...   Jul 23 2021, 08:45 PM
|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (volcanopele @ Jul 23 2021, 03:45 P...   Jul 26 2021, 04:29 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (stevesliva @ Jul 25 2021, 08:29 PM...   Jul 26 2021, 05:07 AM
- - Explorer1   $178 million is pocket change compared with S...   Jul 27 2021, 12:19 AM
|- - StargazeInWonder   This description of the Europa Clipper radar instr...   Feb 13 2022, 11:07 PM
- - scalbers   Live video stream of Europa Clipper assembly: htt...   Sep 22 2023, 09:47 PM


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