Juno flyby Earth and Moon.

[Flooble]

Really pleased to see this has pushed oxygen-thief politicians down the BBC home page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-3671...

[Eric Mc]

I think these long distance space probes represent the best of humanity. I look forward to the Juno mission and all the new stuff we will learn.

[Nom de ploom]

Eric Mc said:

I think these long distance space probes represent the best of humanity. I look forward to the Juno mission and all the new stuff we will learn.

Yes doesn't it make a change to revel in what we can achieve as opposed to conflict, wars and intolerance (not just on PH either).

[Eric Mc]

ash73 said:

When are we expecting some photos?

Won't be for while before we get interesting pictures. It will take a few weeks for the orbit to circularise and for Juno to end up in the right orbit to start doing its mission properly.

Juno is not so much a photographing mission as an atmospheric investigation mission. It will be taking pictures, of course, but most of its work is on atmospheric composition, temperature and behaviour.

[jmorgan]

Jut finished a book with medusa mentioned. However, I am interested in the environment so to speak. Pretty harsh place, pics will be a bonus.

[MartG]

Didn't know that Juno's rocket engine was made in Britain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-3669...

[Eric Mc]

I found out last week on Radio 4's "Inside Science".

[Simpo Two]

jmorgan said:

Jut finished a book with medusa mentioned. However, I am interested in the environment so to speak. Pretty harsh place, pics will be a bonus.

Arthur C Clarke's 'A Meeting with Medusa'?

[MartG]

Simpo Two said:

jmorgan said:

Jut finished a book with medusa mentioned. However, I am interested in the environment so to speak. Pretty harsh place, pics will be a bonus.

Arthur C Clarke's 'A Meeting with Medusa'?

Also appears in 2010 IIRC

[jmorgan]

MartG said:

Simpo Two said:

jmorgan said:

Jut finished a book with medusa mentioned. However, I am interested in the environment so to speak. Pretty harsh place, pics will be a bonus.

Arthur C Clarke's 'A Meeting with Medusa'?

Also appears in 2010 IIRC

A recent tome by Stephen Baxter an Alistair Reynolds. Which uses the book by mr Clarke as the back story for the book and expands on it with some interesting idea's as it living in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Reasonably safely.....

[Eric Mc]

I'm following Juno's progress on NASA's Eyes and at the moment the craft has swung out to almost 1 million miles from Jupiter. It's speed is dropping off as it climbs up the planet's gravity well but some time later today it will start falling back towards Jupiter to begin its second orbit.

[Flooble]

Amazing difference in size, when you think about an LEO orbit being 90 minutes :-)

[Eric Mc]

Juno is actually in a very eccentric orbit at the moment with an Appojove (furthest point from Jupiter) of over 1 million miles.

Over the next few weeks the orbit will circularise. I don't know what its eventual orbital period will be.

[Doobs]

NASA Eyes says next two orbits will take 53.5 days each and the eventual orbit period is 14 days

[Eric Mc]

Thanks. Saves me looking it up.

[anonymous-user]

Have they discovered aliens or rocks that look like faces yet?

[MiniMan64]

I hadn't quite realised the significance of the naming

I hope I read this right but Juno was the name of Jupiters wife who would look for him and his mistress (Io) when he hid them in clouds.

Juno's mission is looking into Jupiters clouds...

[Eric Mc]

It's now 1.5 million miles from Jupiter and still moving away.

[Gandahar]

Eric Mc said:

It's now 1.5 million miles from Jupiter and still moving away.

closer orbit to come of course

[Eric Mc]

Out to 2.33 million miles at the moment.