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Jupiter has a "new moon" tonight!

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http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2016/07/05/nasas-juno-spacecraft-in-orbit-around-mighty-jupiter

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/04/world/juno-jupiter-nasa/index.html


The NASA site for all things Juno.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html


This next link is to a 3 year old documentary on the planet and the mission that arrived on target yesterday. :beer:

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This documentary ^ says Juno became the fastest manmade object en-route to the gas giant.

Juno has less than 2 years to study Jupiter before its purposefully crashed on the planet.

I love the fact its carrying 3 Lego figurines! :luvlove:

Here's a 2016 documentary on the planet / mission.

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I can just see it. Due to some freak accident that flings Juno out of our solar system, in 50,000 years aliens will try to reverse engineer humans based off of lego minifigs.
 
Jupiter was the king of the gods, and the goddess Juno was his wife. He was a dirty cheater, though. Most of Jupiter's moons are named for the god's many extramarital lovers, who he would often hide from Juno using such things as clouds.

So now... Juno is keeping an eye on Jupiter, peering through his clouds to secrets beneath.

Who said science can't be fun?
 
Who said science can't be fun?
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Certainly not me. :beer:

I am Jupiter, hear me roar?

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Here's how they are peaking under Jupiter's clouds.

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This guy is fun and informative.

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They're starting to turn Juno's science gear back on. Here's what's in store for Juno in the coming weeks.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/to...jupiter/ar-BBu6BjJ?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=spartandhp

I find it interesting that one of the reasons they are going to crash land the probe in Feb 2018 is to prevent Earth microbes from contaminating Europa. :vulcan:

Those nasty microbes have already taken down the Martians in "War of the Worlds", and we don't need a repeat to happen to Jupiter's "Europeans". ;)

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Speaking of contamination, the 1st three pages of youtube videos about the "juno probe" each contain a video supposedly debunking this fake space mission. :brickwall:

My fav caption (no, I didn't click on it and give it another "view") was the one that claimed Juno was "a MASONIC hoax put on by the numbers by the Jewish tyrants who oversee..." I assume who oversee JPL which this idjit probably thinks stands for something OTHER than JET Propulsion Laboratory, but for life of me I can't figure out how the Masons teamed up with these old testament tyrants. :crazy:

This guy's grandparents were probably some of those people who not only were taken in by Orson Welles in 1938, they probably continued to believe it even after Orson's mea culpa the next day. :nyah:
 
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"What's the name of space probe they've just sent to Jupiter?"
"Juno."
"No, why do you think I'm asking you?"

"What's the capital of Alaska?"
"Juneau."
etc...
 
I hope they don't find the mining colony in the great red spot. For one it is staffed by humans... That will annoy some :D
 
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So now both Jupiter and Saturn both have probes around them--I want all the planets to have probe/satellites around them
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I want everything in the solar system big enough to be round to have its own orbiter and rover/glider/balloon/submarine/mobile explorer..
 
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A working rover on a gas or ice giant isn't a possibility as they don't have surfaces as such and Venus would be problematic because of the high temperature and pressure. Some sort of aerostat would be a better bet.
 
I thought the Giant red spot was a global TARGET advertisement.

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Ok here's a nonsensical question, why didn't they paint the Legos figurines?

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