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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #841 on: 11/11/2024 05:08 am »

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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #842 on: 11/11/2024 09:43 am »
It was certainly one of the most heavily featured missions in the BBC’s recent Solar System series, presented by Professor Brian Cox. Along with Galileo & New Horizons.

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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #843 on: 11/11/2024 12:15 pm »
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/check-out-the-stunning-new-images-of-jupiter-from-nasas-juno-spacecraft-180985417/
All I can say is Wow!  Thanks for the link.  Our neighborhood in the galaxy has some beautiful places.

Just a note of caution that it doesn't look like that to the naked eye. These are heavily processed to bring out the individual features.

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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #844 on: 11/22/2024 04:15 pm »
At the OPAG meeting yesterday, an update on the Juno mission was presented by the PI. Spacecraft and instruments are healthy. The mission's managers do not need to plan a deorbit maneuver because the orbit will naturally decay and the craft cannot strike one of the major moons.

As a result, the team is preparing a proposal for a second extended mission that would extend observations to potentially 2028 if the propellant supply holds out and radiation doesn't kill the craft (the new orbits would take it through high radiation belts).


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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #845 on: 11/22/2024 04:54 pm »
At the OPAG meeting yesterday, an update on the Juno mission was presented by the PI. Spacecraft and instruments are healthy. The mission's managers do not need to plan a deorbit maneuver because the orbit will naturally decay and the craft cannot strike one of the major moons.

As a result, the team is preparing a proposal for a second extended mission that would extend observations to potentially 2028 if the propellant supply holds out and radiation doesn't kill the craft (the new orbits would take it through high radiation belts).

Thank you for the update!

Does it mean that the 2nd extended mission will end with the natural decay in 2028 or does the orbit decay later?

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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #846 on: 11/22/2024 05:43 pm »
At the OPAG meeting yesterday, an update on the Juno mission was presented by the PI. Spacecraft and instruments are healthy. The mission's managers do not need to plan a deorbit maneuver because the orbit will naturally decay and the craft cannot strike one of the major moons.

As a result, the team is preparing a proposal for a second extended mission that would extend observations to potentially 2028 if the propellant supply holds out and radiation doesn't kill the craft (the new orbits would take it through high radiation belts).
Thank you for the update!

Does it mean that the 2nd extended mission will end with the natural decay in 2028 or does the orbit decay later?
I don't believe this was explicitly stated, but my impression was that the natural decay would be later. Maybe a several more extended missions. Would be really cool, but probably a pipe dream, to have Juno providing magnetosphere measurements during early Clipper and JUICE orbits.
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Re: NASA - Juno - Updates
« Reply #848 on: 12/12/2024 10:20 pm »
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA26521 PIA26521: NASA's Juno Captures Thermal Emissions at Zal Montes


Original Caption Released with Image:

    Red circles and arrows point to glowing thermal emission from active lava breakouts observed by the Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) on NASA's Juno spacecraft on Dec. 30, 2023, in the Zal Montes-Patera complex on Io.

    More information about Juno is at https://www.nasa.gov/juno and https://missionjuno.swri.edu.
Image Credit:
    NASA/Caltech-JPL/SwRI

Image Addition Date:
    2024-12-12
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