JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
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JUICE, ESA's L-class mission to the Jovian system |
 Feb 21 2013, 05:52 PM
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Senior Member  Group: Members Posts: 1101 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Seattle Member No.: 530  |
Nice list of instruments. Doing all that w/o a scan platform like Cassini?
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Feb 21 2013, 05:55 PM
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 IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 1320 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
That's something that would be interesting to know - turning a spacecraft with big solar arrays is more difficult than turning a spacecraft like Cassini. It would also be extremely interesting to know something about the instrument specs.
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Feb 21 2013, 07:42 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1146 Joined: 3-August 06 From: 43° 35' 53" N 1° 26' 35" E Member No.: 1004 |
anybody knows the difference between the Gravity & Geophysics of Jupiter and Galilean Moons and the Planetary Radio Interferometer & Doppler experiments?
they look like both radio tracking experiments -------------------- I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.
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Feb 22 2013, 07:09 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 977 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
For PRIDE it says there is no spacecraft component, just the VLBI, so maybe 3GM is only the spacecraft component?
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Feb 23 2013, 07:50 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 28-October 12 Member No.: 6732 |
I do miss a micrometeoroid-experiment. SUDA (SUrface Dust Analyser) not onboard?
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Feb 23 2013, 05:13 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: 25-November 04 From: Dublin, Ireland Member No.: 113 |
Does anyone know what the Irish involvement is? The ESA press release gives no details and they haven't replied to my query yet.
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Feb 23 2013, 07:02 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 101 Joined: 4-May 11 From: Pardubice, CZ Member No.: 5979 |
Not sure about Irish part, but I can provide info about Czech involvement if someone's interested.
Google translation of recent Czech Space Office announcement. |
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Mar 15 2013, 04:41 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
A Russian Ganymede lander in addition to the European JUICE orbiter ?
http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_11/Mission-...-than-expected/ Marc. |
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May 15 2013, 01:53 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 1320 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
More detailed information on the instruments:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/in...fobjectid=50073 In particular, the camera (JANUS) has a field of view of 1.3 degrees and carries 13 filters. This is a bigger field of view than the 0.3 degrees discussed earlier in this thread but the size in pixels is not shown (I'd love to see more detailed information on the camera specs). 2048x2048 wouldn't surprise me and would result in a resolution comparable to the Galileo camera. There's no mention of a wide angle camera and there's no information on whether pushbroom imaging is possible. One good thing about 1.3° vs. 0.3° is that global scale mosaics of Jupiter would have been a problem with a 0.3° FOV (huge number frames). MAJIS is also a very interesting instrument - a hyperspectral imager from 0.4 to 5.7 microns with a top resolution of ~100 km for Jupiter and 25 m for Ganymede. |
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