Juno's scheduled rendezvous with Jupiter

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...aft-embarks-on-historic-orbit-around-jupiter/

NASA's Juno spacecraft has been hurtling away from earth ~130k/mph. Today, controllers have 35 minutes to slow it down, hoping it'll get caught in Jupiter's gravitational pull and spend until Feb 2018 taking close up pictures.

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[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...orbit-around-jupiter-begins-20-month-mission/

Successful deceleration

 

[Sharpshooter]

This is one of the biggest things in the exploration of our solar system in a generation, and it's worth 3 posts so far.

I effin hate our stupid know-nothing ignoramus of a society.

 

[Dave]

lol you can't be serious posting things like that? Calling out society because of a inactive thread about space exploration on a hockey message board?

hfboards will never be a good place to discuss things like this. Space exploration is fairly niche itself and you're in the smallest subforum on a message board dedicated to a sport. Having high expectations of good conversations on things like this in places like this will lead only to disappointment.


That said, there's not a lot to speak about regarding juno other than commenting or posting on whether a certain stage of the mission was a success or not.

Juno just made it to jupiter and is performing a maneuver that will set it up for it's final sustained orbit. The maneuver right now will put it into an orbit that will take 54 days, then it will it will reach the next phase which will put it into its final 14-day orbital period where the good stuff should start pouring out. So it will take 2-3 months from today before juno will start sending cool stuff back.

The scientists behind the juno mission just did a Q&A on reddit that had tons of commends, there is also a subreddit dedicated to the juno mission itself.

I just saw a post saying that images will be available to the public august 27.

Here is a subreddit just for the juno mission.

 

[Dave]

Here is the most detailed picture we have of jupiter; juno will take better pictures that this. Open this image in an other tab, it's big. Keep in mind this is a composite image, and if juno were to reproduce this image it would also be a composite, but it would have higher resolution.

Here is a video of juno approaching jupiter with jupiter's moons being visible.




An other cool picture, everyone knows jupiter is big, but how big? Using north america as a reference.

 

[DyerMaker66*]

Is that picture of Jupiter's spot?

How can something with as much gravity as Jupiter be gas? Should it sublimate itself?

 

[Hurt]

This is truly amazing and should be getting far more fanfare than it is. The whole process has been building up over years and hundreds of millions of KM apart for this object to be able to see Jupiter so closely. It's crazy to me.

 

[hatterson]

Interesting look at how large the actual probe is:

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Holy cow... had no clue it was that huge.

 

[Hurt]

While large, I honestly thought it would be way bigger.

 

[S A W F T*]

I want pictures!

 

[Kairi Zaide]

Am I the only one who wishes they would just launch something with a camera right into Jupiter's atmosphere to take as many pictures as it possibly can while on its way down?

 

[McRpro]

Am I the only one who wishes they would just launch something with a camera right into Jupiter's atmosphere to take as many pictures as it possibly can while on its way down?

It will be intentionally crashed into Jupiter in a year and a half, so maybe you'll get your wish.

 

[Hurt]

It will be intentionally crashed into Jupiter in a year and a half, so maybe you'll get your wish.

So what is going to destroy Juno? The pressure, the atmosphere, the storms? I guess all three plus more?

 

[MAHJ71]

Some pretty damn cool pics.. space stuff never gets old to me.

 

[LT]

So what is going to destroy Juno? The pressure, the atmosphere, the storms? I guess all three plus more?

As far as I can understand, its more of a soupy planet than a gaseous planet. Average density is a little bit higher than water, so crashing into that will likely cause most of the probe to disintegrate.

I'm not totally sure that's accurate, though. Jupiter supposedly has a solid core, which could throw off the density a fair bit (the average density vs. what it actually will encounter). Regardless, it has an atmosphere, and judging by looking at the probe, that's all Jupiter needs in order for the probe to be destroyed during entry.

 

[Moskau]

Jupiter has always given me anxiety to look at. It's unique in our solar system but a lot of planets in our galaxy are similar to it. It really makes you feel small literally and figuratively.

 

[kmart]

I want pictures!

me too... so far any News regarding Juno are vids like this



"See first pictures of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno probe"... alright there are no pics so stop it with the headline, dont care about animated art...

i understand they want to generate public interest but at least show us something real.

 

[LadyStanley]

"See first pictures of Jupiter from NASA’s Juno probe"... alright there are no pics so stop it with the headline, dont care about animated art...

Just the few seconds while the probe was way, way, way out there, en route.

Sounds like it'll be another 6 weeks before we "see" anything.

 

[torero]

simply Fantastic ... !

the size of NA compared to Jupiter ... !

Great lesson of humility ... we and the Universe.

Absolutely awesome.

(by the way i didn't know their was a "science" section in HFboards.
And i come to the board for now 8 years !! )

Keep posting your Juno files ... they are simply magnificent. Thank you !

 

[hatterson]

So what is going to destroy Juno? The pressure, the atmosphere, the storms? I guess all three plus more?

I'd assume it would be the atmosphere, in the sense that it would get demolished by entry effects.

 

[Chootoi]

IIRC back in the 90's the Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter that dropped for an hour or so before it was crushed by the pressure and temperature.

 

[kmart]

so this already happened before ? i thought the big deal is that this is the first probe reaching jupiter. of course this mission has better equipment means it will probably just confirm data that we already know/guessed.

 

[LadyStanley]

so this already happened before ? i thought the big deal is that this is the first probe reaching jupiter. of course this mission has better equipment means it will probably just confirm data that we already know/guessed.

No. Galileo was the first.

 

[chicagoskycam]

so this already happened before ? i thought the big deal is that this is the first probe reaching jupiter. of course this mission has better equipment means it will probably just confirm data that we already know/guessed.

I think they will confirm if it has a core, more about the storms along with some fantastic pictures.