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  • Oct 9: "Stunning" findings @ Jupiter to be released

    "Stunning" and enough to generate NINE articles in Science??!!

    Maybe they found the Monolith

    http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23718

    NASA Scientist Available for Interviews About New Jupiter Findings

    PRESS RELEASE
    Date Released: Thursday, October 4, 2007
    Source: Ames Research Center

    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - A NASA scientist will be available to reporters Tuesday, Oct. 9, to discuss Jupiter findings to be published Friday, Oct. 12, in the journal Science.

    What NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft found when it flew by Jupiter on Feb. 28, 2007, stunned scientists who now are releasing more information in nine journal articles in Science.

    WHAT: Opportunity to conduct interviews about newly revealed Jupiter observations gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft.

    WHEN: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. PDT Oct. 9, 2007.

    WHO: Jeff Moore, New Horizons Jupiter Encounter science team lead from NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. Moore also is co-author of several the technical articles to appear in the journal, Science.
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    BACKGROUND: New Horizons came within 1.4 million miles of Jupiter on Feb. 28, using the planet's gravity to trim three years from the spacecraft's travel time to Pluto. For several weeks before and after this closest approach, the piano-sized robotic probe trained its seven cameras and sensors on Jupiter and its four largest moons, storing data from nearly 700 observations on digital recorders and gradually sending that information back to Earth.

    The flyby added 9,000 miles per hour to the spacecraft's speed, pushing New Horizons past 50,000 miles per hour and setting up a flight near Pluto in July 2015.

    The number of observations at Jupiter was twice that of those planned for Pluto. New Horizons made most of the observations of Jupiter during the spacecraft's closest approach to the planet. More than 40,000 separate commands from the onboard computer guided the spacecraft.
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    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 4 October 2007, 22:25.
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  • #2
    I don't see any monoliths in the reports for Oct 9th
    FT.

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    • #3
      NASA NH site link....

      New Scientist link......

      NH Jupiter highlights (for starters)

      • NH found giant blobs of charged particles moving down the length of Jupiter's magnetotail, a 500 million km stream of charged particles blown away from Jupiter by the solar wind.

      • Jupiter's tiniest moons have been been eroded away by micrometeoroids.

      • The first movies of a plume spewing from a volcano on Jupiter's moon Io, and the discovery of a new 240-kilometre-long lava flow – the longest seen since 1979 – from another volcano on the moon

      • The first observations of lightning near Jupiter's poles

      • Observations of aurorae in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Io

      • The discovery that clouds near Jupiter's Great Red Spot have thinned since the Galileo and Cassini spacecraft observed the region in 1996 and 2000, respectively

      Alan Stern, the mission's chief scientist and head of science at NASA, says the successful observations at Jupiter bode well for the probe's 2015 encounter with Pluto. "If Jupiter is any guide, then we'll have a home run at Pluto,"
      Dr. Mordrid
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      • #4
        Question..

        2017-2020.. After it has passed Pluto, I'm not going to pretend like i know much about this mission as you've just showed me it for the first time. But anyway..

        Whats the deal with the "With Nasa approval, the space craft will be directed toward one or more Kuiper Belt Objects beyond Pluto."

        OK so if nasa didnt approve it? than where would it go from there. weird statement.

        www.lizziemorrison.com

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        • #5
          It'll go to the Kuiper Belt no matter what, the question is if NASA will budget the money to continue receiving data. Don't worry, that's a "safe harbor" statement that gets put out every mission. Example: the Mars rovers were only budgeted for 3 months after landing
          Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 13 October 2007, 04:36.
          Dr. Mordrid
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          An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

          I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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          • #6
            aaah i get it now
            www.lizziemorrison.com

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