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re: Juno’s 8th science flyby of Jupiter
Posted on 11/12/17 at 7:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 11/12/17 at 7:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
Shrimping for metallic shrimp.
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Posted on 11/12/17 at 7:36 pm to diat150
Basically they stitched a bunch of pictures together and enhanced after the fact.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 7:39 pm to DavidTheGnome
RA'd for move to season long hurricane thread.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 7:45 pm to Jim Rockford
JunoCam
JunoCam (or JCM) is the visible-light camera/telescope of the Juno Jupiter orbiter, a NASA space probe launched to the planet Jupiter on 5 August 2011. It was built by Malin Space Science Systems.[2] The telescope/camera has a field of view of 58 degrees with four filters (3 for visible light).[3] The camera is run by the JunoCam Digital Electronics Assembly (JDEA) also made by MSSS.[2] It takes a swath of imaging as the spacecraft rotates; the camera is fixed to the spacecraft so as it rotates, it gets one sweep of observation.[2]
JunoCam is not one of the probe's core scientific instruments; it was put on board primarily for public science and outreach, to increase public engagement, and all images will be available on NASA's website.[4][5] It is capable of being used for science, and does have some coordinated activities in regards to this, as well as to engage amateur and as well as professional infrared astronomers.[5]
In addition to visible light filters, it also has a near infrared filter to help detect clouds; a methane filter in addition the visible color filters.[6] The camera is a "push-broom" type imager, generating an image as the spacecraft turns.[6]
JunoCam (or JCM) is the visible-light camera/telescope of the Juno Jupiter orbiter, a NASA space probe launched to the planet Jupiter on 5 August 2011. It was built by Malin Space Science Systems.[2] The telescope/camera has a field of view of 58 degrees with four filters (3 for visible light).[3] The camera is run by the JunoCam Digital Electronics Assembly (JDEA) also made by MSSS.[2] It takes a swath of imaging as the spacecraft rotates; the camera is fixed to the spacecraft so as it rotates, it gets one sweep of observation.[2]
JunoCam is not one of the probe's core scientific instruments; it was put on board primarily for public science and outreach, to increase public engagement, and all images will be available on NASA's website.[4][5] It is capable of being used for science, and does have some coordinated activities in regards to this, as well as to engage amateur and as well as professional infrared astronomers.[5]
In addition to visible light filters, it also has a near infrared filter to help detect clouds; a methane filter in addition the visible color filters.[6] The camera is a "push-broom" type imager, generating an image as the spacecraft turns.[6]
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:05 pm to Dueces
No, gas giants have no real surface. They are just clouds of gas that slowly get denser and denser. Imagine being in a sandstorm that’s miles high and there’s a slow transition into the consistency of the sand dunes and then gets much much more dense as you go down. And all that is moving at hundreds/thousands of mph.
Ones like Jupiter are basically immature, wanna be stars but they just never obtained the mass to ignite the fusion reactions in their cores.
This post was edited on 11/13/17 at 10:00 am
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:32 pm to SundayFunday
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
Isn't Jupiter's most important function for the Earth is its giant gravity field attracts many comets and asteroids that fly through our solar system on their way towards the Sun which decreases the chance those objects will crash into Earth?
Google "comet hits Jupiter" and you'll get links to various videos of the Shoemaker Levy comet hiiting Jupiter 20-something years ago along with videos of various asteroids hitting Jupiter.
Google "comet hits Jupiter" and you'll get links to various videos of the Shoemaker Levy comet hiiting Jupiter 20-something years ago along with videos of various asteroids hitting Jupiter.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:41 pm to LSURussian
It does protect us by being a huge gravity well to attract asteroids. It could also fling them our way though.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:45 pm to DavidTheGnome
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Full of cool moons though, some which may harbor life.
NASA is planning a mission to Europa, the 2nd or 3rd SLS missions with a co-manifested payload including an orbiter and a lander, for exploration on the surface.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 8:46 pm to dale10
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imagine if we actually put resources behind getting to the other planets in our galaxy and beyond.
See above ^^^
This post was edited on 11/12/17 at 8:48 pm
Posted on 11/12/17 at 9:13 pm to meeple
Yeah these probes are giving us fantastic science on the cheap (relatively). We should be doing, much, much more of them. Quit pissing money away on the ISS and start firing probes around the solar system. James Webb is getting ready soon and I’m excited about that.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 11:18 pm to eyepooted
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I'd like to see photographs of the actual planet
Please be real.....
Posted on 11/13/17 at 6:59 am to DavidTheGnome
quote:Theres nothing cheap about James Webb, not even relatively.
Yeah these probes are giving us fantastic science on the cheap (relatively). We should be doing, much, much more of them. Quit pissing money away on the ISS and start firing probes around the solar system. James Webb is getting ready soon and I’m excited about that.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 7:12 am to OMLandshark
Looks like uranus has a lot of methane.
Those pics of jupiter are amazing. I would love to see it in person (as an astronaut, of course). A few lifetimes away for that.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 9:00 am to OMLandshark
I just don't understand the gas giants at all.
Posted on 11/13/17 at 10:32 am to SundayFunday
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No, gas giants have no real surface. They are just clouds of gas that slowly get denser and denser. Imagine being in a sandstorm that’s miles high and there’s a slow transition into the consistency of the sand dunes and then gets much much more dense as you go down.
And all that is moving at hundreds/thousands of mph.
Ones like Jupiter are basically immature, wanna be stars but they just never obtained the mass to ignite the fusion reactions in their cores.
The picture above your post shows a core? Is that not a solid mass? With the reference of Earth at the top of the picture is looks like Jupiters core is about the size of earth.
Is the core not really solid, but just a ball of loose debris?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 10:47 am to alphaandomega
It just gets so dense to the point where it basically is solid but flowing. The Earth’s core for instance is always flowing.
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