Juno Perijove 55, October 15, 2023 |
Juno Perijove 55, October 15, 2023 |
Oct 16 2023, 11:50 PM
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Oct 17 2023, 12:47 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Yep,
Nope, It's Volund! -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 17 2023, 06:27 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 17 2023, 03:02 PM
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PJ55 Io Initial downlink images overview, normal-ish color/contrast
Full resolution PNG at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=15605 |
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Oct 17 2023, 08:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Final montage of 15 images. There are 4 others, 2 at the start and end but their resolution is much lower and don't really add much to the coverage. -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 18 2023, 04:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
I'm thinking back to the time about 15 years ago when the informed expectation for images of Io was about 9 pixels for the entire image.
Of course no one back then was anticipating the trajectory modifications required by the longer orbit and extended mission timeline. |
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Oct 18 2023, 05:03 PM
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I'm thinking back to the time about 15 years ago when the informed expectation for images of Io was about 9 pixels for the entire image. Of course no one back then was anticipating the trajectory modifications required by the longer orbit and extended mission timeline. Makes me wonder if orbit insertion error helped these flybys happen? |
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Oct 18 2023, 08:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2106 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221 |
The original trajectory would have flown through the radiation belts much more often. How much instruments would have degraded by now is hard to say (but it's definitely serendipitous!)
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Oct 18 2023, 09:34 PM
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Funny, because the success of this flyby led me to muse over an impractical hypothetical scenario where the Galileo Orbiter, in response to its antenna issues, was put into a "parking" orbit with minimal radiation belt flybys until a relay orbiter could be flown out to join it and let the mission resume with the combination of Galileo's instruments and high-throughput data transfer. I'm sure that that would have been wildly impractical, but this phase of Juno's mission has just a touch of the spirit of that. We now have the data throughput asset that Galileo lacked.
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Oct 18 2023, 09:39 PM
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The original trajectory would have flown through the radiation belts much more often. But it would have taken data much more frequently near Jupiter, so even though the mission has been a lot longer, the amount of science data is more or less the same. Satellite encounters notwithstanding. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Oct 20 2023, 09:51 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Oct 24 2023, 11:50 PM
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IMG to PNG GOD Group: Moderator Posts: 2254 Joined: 19-February 04 From: Near fire and ice Member No.: 38 |
My version of the PJ55_29 image:
As mentioned in previous posts, a volcanic plume is visible near the limb at lower right in the PJ55_29 image. Here its brightness has been greatly exaggerated relative to other parts of the image. North is up and this image is enlarged by a factor of 3 relative to the original, raw data. |
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Oct 25 2023, 01:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
That plume is Prometheus, also seen on PJ53.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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