JUNO Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin’ over Jupiter
NASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the ‘King of the Planets’ since braking into orbit on America’s Independence Day.
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Totally forgot!!! OMG! OMG OMG!!
:D
Let’s try out an image size change.
Flight over “North Polar Jupiter”, eh. Reminds me of Doc Smith and his Lensmen series. ie. “The fleet of these pirates is led by Gray Roger, a surviving Adept of North Polar Jupiter. … He left Earth after the Third World War, he had created the Adepts of North Polar Jupiter to assure the continued inhibition of the humanity of Sol III.”
CrazyNeutrino said:
JUNO Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin’ over JupiterNASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the ‘King of the Planets’ since braking into orbit on America’s Independence Day.
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“NASA’s Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. Juno passed about 4,200 kilometers above Jupiter’s swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 208 megametres per hour with respect to the planet. Everything worked as planned and Juno is in great health. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno’s mission (scheduled to end in February 2018). The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.”
“It will take days for all the science data collected during the flyby to be downlinked and even more to begin to comprehend what Juno and Jupiter are trying to tell us. While results from the spacecraft’s suite of instruments will be released down the road, a handful of images from Juno’s visible light imager — JunoCam — are expected to be released the next couple of weeks. Those images will include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter’s north and south poles.”
mollwollfumble said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
JUNO Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin’ over JupiterNASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the ‘King of the Planets’ since braking into orbit on America’s Independence Day.
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“NASA’s Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. Juno passed about 4,200 kilometers above Jupiter’s swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 208 megametres per hour with respect to the planet. Everything worked as planned and Juno is in great health. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno’s mission (scheduled to end in February 2018). The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.”
“It will take days for all the science data collected during the flyby to be downlinked and even more to begin to comprehend what Juno and Jupiter are trying to tell us. While results from the spacecraft’s suite of instruments will be released down the road, a handful of images from Juno’s visible light imager — JunoCam — are expected to be released the next couple of weeks. Those images will include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter’s north and south poles.”
I wonder if it could detect life forms living in the atmosphere
Bear in mind the image shown here is not a close flyby image (it’s from 703,000km away) The close-ups haven’t been transmitted yet.
A bit more waiting.
Cymek said:
mollwollfumble said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
JUNO Transmits First Up-Close Look Soarin’ over JupiterNASA’s JUNO spacecraft successfully swooped over the Jovian cloud tops today, Saturday, Aug. 27, gathering its first up close images and science observations of the ‘King of the Planets’ since braking into orbit on America’s Independence Day.
more…
“NASA’s Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. Juno passed about 4,200 kilometers above Jupiter’s swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 208 megametres per hour with respect to the planet. Everything worked as planned and Juno is in great health. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter planned during Juno’s mission (scheduled to end in February 2018). The August 27 flyby was the first time Juno had its entire suite of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zoomed past.”
“It will take days for all the science data collected during the flyby to be downlinked and even more to begin to comprehend what Juno and Jupiter are trying to tell us. While results from the spacecraft’s suite of instruments will be released down the road, a handful of images from Juno’s visible light imager — JunoCam — are expected to be released the next couple of weeks. Those images will include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter’s north and south poles.”
I wonder if it could detect life forms living in the atmosphere
If it turns up in one piece on NASA’s doorstep after they swan dive it into Jupiter that would be a clue.
Bubblecar said:
Bear in mind the image shown here is not a close flyby image (it’s from 703,000km away) The close-ups haven’t been transmitted yet.
Thank you cause I found that shot fairly disappointing. :)
CrazyNeutrino said:
A bit more waiting.
Thumb-wrestle?
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
A bit more waiting.
Thumb-wrestle?
no, just waiting.
CrazyNeutrino said:
Postpocelipse said:
CrazyNeutrino said:
A bit more waiting.
Thumb-wrestle?
no, just waiting.
I offered. Can’t help you now. Sorry……..
I think they should tone down the hype on these images until they surpass those from Galileo.
Cymek said:
I wonder if it could detect life forms living in the atmosphere
I happen to know the answer to that. Juno couldn’t, it doesn’t have appropriate equipment onboard.
I would love to design an instrument that could detect life on Jupiter from orbit. It would be a hyperspectral IR spectrometer.
I suspect, but am not quite sure, that the best starting point would be FTIR
dv said:
I think they should tone down the hype on these images until they surpass those from Galileo.
There hasn’t been any hype about images from Juno. Not in any articles I’ve seen anyway. It has been made absolutely clear from the outset that the images from Juno will have negligible scientific value, but are included only to satisfy the curiosity of non-scientists.
So far I have seen not a shred of hype about Juno’s proposed photography of Jupiter’s moons.
Some higher res stuff coming in now:
This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter’s south pole. The JunoCam instrument acquired the view on August 27, 2016, when the spacecraft was about 58,700 miles (94,500 kilometers) above the polar region.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3771464/The-incredible-images-Jupiter-s-North-Pole-reveal-strange-blue-hue-stormy-conditions-like-seen-imagined-before.html
Bubblecar said:
Some higher res stuff coming in now:
Looks like marble paper
Bubblecar said:
This image from NASA’s Juno spacecraft provides a never-before-seen perspective on Jupiter’s south pole. The JunoCam instrument acquired the view on August 27, 2016, when the spacecraft was about 58,700 miles (94,500 kilometers) above the polar region.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3771464/The-incredible-images-Jupiter-s-North-Pole-reveal-strange-blue-hue-stormy-conditions-like-seen-imagined-before.html
Looks like lots of little storms, earth size ones.
Bl.. He.., Those images posted above of Jupiter’s north pole look different. Some IR images also coming through now.
The above is a freeze fram from a video. Full video at
https://youtu.be/i9TtSCkoERw
Bubblecar said:
Big image, pretty polar patterns
Just reprocessed this to show more near the terminator.
Also, this video is well worth listening to, switch on the sound and listen to Jupiter’s Aurora.
