Juno flyby Earth and Moon.

[jmorgan]

Mission to Jupiter comnpletes a flyby of good old Earth using us to get to its destination. Flyby imaged from Juno and made into a video.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/juno/juno-earth-flyby-2013...


http://missionjuno.swri.edu/earth-flyby
Images of Earth.
http://missionjuno.swri.edu/media-gallery

[Eric Mc]

They didn't use their main camera. They used a star sighting camera (used for pointing the spacecraft) and recorded the images at low resolution so they could take enough images quickly to make a film.

It was more a bit of fun as opposed to something that was an essential part of the mission. I'm sure the images it will send back from Jupiter will be a lot, lot sharper.

[Eric Mc]

I'll be very disappointed if the Jupiter images aren't at least as good as Galileo.

[jmorgan]

We get New Horizons first, next year. That one has had a bit of a trip.

[Eric Mc]

After all that time, it's still only a flyby. It better get some good shots.

[jmorgan]

Boo!
July 4th is the day......

[pherlopolus]

I was reminded of Juno this week, I found a picture I took of the launch!

[Einion Yrth]

Lets hope the propulsion systems have survived the cold-soak well. 35 minutes is a long burn...

[mybrainhurts]

What the merry hell is going on?

Nobody told me to duck...

[jmorgan]

mybrainhurts said:

What the merry hell is going on?

Nobody told me to duck...

well, launched 2011 ish, 2014 I cooked up a cunning plot to confuse you in 2016 by mis naming a thread.........

[mybrainhurts]

Stop trying to confuse me, I can do that perectly well myself...

[Eric Mc]

Looking forward to this. With these long term space missions, patience is required.

[jmorgan]

[jmorgan]

Might be better to ask the mods to rename this thread.

[jmorgan]

Not long now,
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/images/ind...

[jmorgan]

Closer still


And some info on invisible boundaries crossed.....

JPL site clicky

[jmorgan]

From reading, it is immense and that article does mention it is the largest structure in the solar system.

Looking at the orbit for Juno, the planned ones that is, they are very particular to avoid the hottest parts where they can. Running the simulation the first time, I thought it was a one pass trick or the simulator had it wrong.

[jmorgan]

Tomorrows the day the British built motor has to work for 20 minutes.

[Einion Yrth]

Orbit insertion successful. Now to despin and re-orient.

[jmorgan]

Hope it does not see tma 2.