APOD: Juno Mission Trailer (2016 Jun 28)

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Juno Mission Trailer

Explanation: What will NASA's Juno spacecraft find when it reaches Jupiter next Monday? Very little, if Juno does not survive Jupiter Orbit Insertion, a complex series of operations in an unknown environment just above Jupiter's cloud tops. If successful, as explained in the featured video, Juno will swoop around Jupiter, passing closer than any previous spacecraft. The goal is to decelerate, enter into a highly elliptical orbit, and begin two years of science operations. Juno's science mission objectives include mapping Jupiter's deep structure, determining how much water is in Jupiter's atmosphere, and exploring Jupiter's powerful magnetic field and how it creates auroras around Jupiter's poles. These lessons hold promise to help humanity better understand the history of our Solar System and the dynamics of our Earth. Juno is powered predominantly by three large solar panels, each measuring a side of small truck. Launched in 2011, Juno's planned mission will take it around the Jovian giant 37 times, after which, to avoid contaminating Europa with microbes, it will be directed to dive into Jupiter's thick atmosphere, where it will break apart and melt.

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[geckzilla]

Got a hearty chuckle out of me.

[Boomer12k]

Yeah, gimme a chocolate swirl Cappuccino....

Sounds like a great project... should learn much...

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[Whiskybreath]

Scary. But fantastic.

[uakrongrad]

Are Ben Affleck and Aerosmith leading the mission too? That trailer seem less like a NASA mission video and more like a Hollywood cinematic...
Commenting specifically about the actual mission, These are exciting times!!!

[Cousin Ricky]

(deep voice) “J. O. I.”

How dramatic!

[neufer]

Rad: An abbreviation of 'radical'--a term made popular by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Still primarily used by people on the West Coast who find words like 'cool', 'awesome', and 'tight' to be tired and overused; 'rad' is generally considered to be a much higher praise than the aforementioned superlatives. Also used as a general expression of awe.

[Markus Schwarz]

And then scientists are surprised when people complain that scientists don’t know what they are doing. Sure, these movie-trailer like videos get attention, but is it the attention that the mission really needs? The scientists at CERN found out the hard way, when, after hyping the creation of black holes, people started lawsuits to stop their new accelerator.

[Evermore]

Is the photo a simulation or actual?

[sunson]

Lets call it "J.O.Y." , no? Jupiter does not know about orthography!

[Wadsworth]

I didn't like the radiation comparison. .39 Rad exposure at earth is a transient measurement compared to the 20 million Rad exposure they stated for the entire mission. It would be a much better comparison stating the expected average transient Rad measurement at the distance this craft will be orbiting Jupiter..
It looks like NASA is increasing its efforts at hyping missions in order to garner the 'layman' public interest.

[Chris Peterson]

I didn't like the radiation comparison. .39 Rad exposure at earth is a transient measurement compared to the 20 million Rad exposure they stated for the entire mission. It would be a much better comparison stating the expected average transient Rad measurement at the distance this craft will be orbiting Jupiter.

It would also be nice if they used a proper SI unit for describing the radiation dose. NASA has gotten in trouble in the past because of a failure to use modern units.

[Steve Dutch]

I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

[Chris Peterson]

I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Probably not much. It's doubtful a camera would have provided all that much scientifically useful data. (And there were excellent reasons for not having a camera.)

[Steve Dutch]

neufer: Are you serious about the "rad" definition? Because it was used long, long before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and stands for "radiation absorbed dose." It equaled 100 ergs per gram, and the SI unit is the gray (joules per kilogram). One gray equals 100 rads, so 5 grays is the approximate average lethal dose (your mileage may vary).

[JohnD]

A people complain that scientists don’t know what they are doing.

Or saying.
Quote, re Jupiter, "It's spinning around so fast, it's like a giant slingshot".
That'll be the exobiologist then, not a physicist, or an engineer or a flight planner.
Or else the guy from Central Casting, with the deep dramatic voice, who was allowed to write his own script.

Shrugs
John

[Steve Dutch]

I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Probably not much. It's doubtful a camera would have provided all that much scientifically useful data. (And there were excellent reasons for not having a camera.)

Sure, if you define seeing the cloud structure as unimportant.

[Chris Peterson]

I wonder how many questions about Jupiter's atmosphere we could have answered if we hadn't wasted the Galileo probe by failing to equip it with a camera.

Probably not much. It's doubtful a camera would have provided all that much scientifically useful data. (And there were excellent reasons for not having a camera.)

Sure, if you define seeing the cloud structure as unimportant.

It's doubtful a camera would show much of that from inside the cloud layers. As on Earth, the optical spectrum is not the preferred way to study clouds. But like I said, there were very good reasons not to have a camera. Its absence wasn't an accident.

[Boomer12k]

Very Dramatic....

"in space....anything can happen...."

Ooooooooooooo.....

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[neufer]

neufer: Are you serious about the "rad" definition?

I'm shocked that you dare to question my sincerity!

Because it was used long, long before Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and stands for "radiation absorbed dose." It equaled 100 ergs per gram, and the SI unit is the gray (joules per kilogram). One gray equals 100 rads, so 5 grays is the approximate average lethal dose (your mileage may vary).

Well...how do you suppose that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles mutated in the first place

(It's Ninja Turtles all the way down in the sewers of New York City.)

[Sarba Guha]

This is as great a trailer as I have ever seen.

Should have ended............"Coming soon to a theater near Jupiter".

[kingernie]

DirecTv guide for NASA TV doesn't show coverage for the event on the 4th. Anybody know anything about that?

[naleta]

So they aren't worried about contaminating Jupiter? Some microbes can survive great heat, you know.

[Chris Peterson]

So they aren't worried about contaminating Jupiter? Some microbes can survive great heat, you know.

Nothing can survive entry heat. And beyond reasonable doubt, no microbe can survive for long in the conditions of Jupiter.

[neufer]

[b][color=#0000FF][size=150]Besides which... Jupiter has no curse on it.[/size][/color][/b]

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So they aren't worried about contaminating Jupiter? Some microbes can survive great heat, you know.

Nothing can survive entry heat. And beyond reasonable doubt, no microbe can survive for long in the conditions of Jupiter.