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| Hornblower | Date: Wednesday, 06.07.2016, 19:57 | Message # 46 |
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| XKCD had a Juno comic today!
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| spacer | Date: Thursday, 07.07.2016, 04:03 | Message # 47 |
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| they really did it within one second of its scheduled? whaaa imagine the math behind it.
how did they know exactly the speed juno get in earth assist flyby or with juno burn time.
mind blown!
"we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still"
-carl sagan
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 07.07.2016, 04:32 | Message # 48 |
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| It's a little less impressive when you remember they make a few small course corrections along the way.  But yeah, interplanetary trajectories are computed very precisely. It's amazing.
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| Bambusman | Date: Saturday, 27.08.2016, 22:18 | Message # 49 |
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| the juno spacecraft is approaching jupiter!
this image was taken when juno was 437.000 miles away from jupiter, this is junos first orbital flyby.
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 27.08.2016, 22:42 | Message # 50 |
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| Very different perspective of Jupiter than we usually get.
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 27.08.2016, 23:04 | Message # 51 |
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| i really want high quality close images!!
cant wait for them
"we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still"
-carl sagan
-space engine photographer
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| Hornblower | Date: Thursday, 08.09.2016, 02:34 | Message # 52 |
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| Beautiful image of one of Jupiter's poles (I think it's the south pole, but I could be wrong)
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| Mosfet | Date: Thursday, 20.10.2016, 00:37 | Message # 53 |
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| Juno’s First Slice of Jupiter
It seems the typical banding is repeated somehow for at least 200 miles below the upper atmosphere.
"Time is illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
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Edited by Mosfet - Thursday, 20.10.2016, 00:53 |
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