5 days to NASA Juno probe Jupiter orbit insertion

[gary]

Peter Spinks reports in the Sydney Morning Herald today on the arrival
of the NASA Juno probe to Jupiter on Monday.

One of NASA's most daring and dangerous missions is under way, as the Juno space probe makes its final approach to the king of planets, Jupiter, after a tortuous five-year journey spanning almost 3 billion kilometres.

Travelling at a record 257,000km/h, the craft will soon begin a series of acrobatic braking manoeuvres for the first of 33 highly elliptical polar orbits.

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When it reaches Jupiter on Monday, the hardy probe, with a titanium vault protecting its innards, will be the first to have a shot at polar orbiting a giant gas planet.

Article here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci...28-gpu3bu.html

NASA Juno web site -
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

Where is Juno now?
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/where

[deanm (Dean)]

Apparently, the radiation environment at the lowest point in Juno's orbit is 20 million times that on the Earth's surface.

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Dean

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

very excited for this mission.
we've been spoilt with Saturn shots (cassini), it probably fair the "King" gets some of the attention too.

[deanm (Dean)]

Listen to the electric field data as audio renderings - now that's some 'spacey' sounds - just like in Hollywood movies!

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily...ary.org/blogs/

Dean

[floyd_2 (Dean)]

Thanks for those links Gary. I was just explaining the distances involved with a trip to Jupiter to my 7 year old daughter last night. I'll be sharing those links with her this evening.

[el_draco (Rom)]

This is Cool.... http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/eyes-on-juno.html

[sharptrack2 (Kevin)]

The burn has started, everything is looking great! Live coverage on JPL and NASA TV sites.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/5808990

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/#public

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Juno - welcome to Jupiter!

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

looks like it survived!
anyone know if they were taking any images during the close encounter?

[glend (Glen)]

No images yet, everything was turned off I believe.
The thing that I found very exciting in the NASA TV coverage and the interviews, was that they are going to be making the Juno Cam RAW files available online (for each filter) so that any astro/planetary imagers can download them and process them in whatever colour scheme or way they wish. How about that for the ultimate planetary imaging, having effectively your camera orbiting Jupiter.