Questions tagged [jupiter]
Questions about the exploration of the planet Jupiter.
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What is the relationship between Io and Jupiter's radiation?
I am a student in an astronomy class in community college and this is my first astronomy class. I am doing a project on the Galilean moons, and have been scrubbing the internet, yet I can't find much ...
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Is Callisto explorable by humans?
I have heard that Jupiter's satellites weren't explorable by humans because the radiation Jupiter emits is too strong. Recently, I saw this table in this article, Magnetosphere of Jupiter Jovian ...
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Juno Deorbit in 2025?
Currently the Juno mission is extended until September 2025. Originally it was supposed to be deorbited into Jupiters atmosphere in 2021. Is known if they will extend it again? It will be sad to see ...
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Why didn't the Galileo probe take pictures as it descended into Jupiter's clouds, really?
To Ada Munroe's question: "If you did fall into Jupiter's atmosphere in a submarine, what would it actually look like? What would you see before you melted or burned up?" Randall Munroe ...
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Is an ablative/buoyant “lander” a reasonable design for a Jupiter probe?
It is difficult to design a “lander” for a Jupiter mission for several reasons: There is no “land” to “land on” since Jupiter’s atmosphere just gets denser towards the planetary center. There is a ...
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What type of radiation does Io experience?
I've read that Io (the Galilean moon) experiences unusually strong radiation due to Jupiter's intense magnetic field. This astronomy.com article says that 3600 rem (= 36 Sv), which would be deadly to ...
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Will Europa Clipper and JUICE be able to see each other?
Both will be in Jupiter orbit at the same time in the early 2030s, and both have sizable solar arrays and high resolution cameras- will either of them ever be close enough to spot each other? Mars ...
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Are the Jupiter-Io Lagrange points stable?
Lagrange points are solutions to the three-body problem. Moving among Jupiter's Galilean moons seems likely to be at least a six-body problem, so there is no reason to assume the three-body solutions ...
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How much lead (kg) would you need to survive for an extended period of time in Jupiter’s radiation belts?
Imagine you have a 1 by 1 by 2 meter chamber that a human needs to survive in for one year, while orbiting in Jupiter’s radiation belts. How much lead, in weight, would have to surround the chamber to ...
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Why use plutonium when sunlight is everywhere? Any proposals to use concentrated solar power instead of Pu238 as a heat source for TGs?
Why use plutonium when sunlight is everywhere? The case for powering thermoelectric generators (TG) with concentrated solar rather than plutonium: Spacecraft operating in the inner Solar System ...
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How does the James Webb space telescope measure wind shear?
NASA.gov has an image of the James Webb space telescope's nircam tracking a high speed belt near Jupiter's equator. They measured the speed by looking at wind shears in millibars. How does Webb do ...
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Was there a close call for Voyager 2's extended mission due to lost uplink during the Jupiter encounter?
In Uplink-Downlink (2001), Douglas Mudgway says: "[The Jupiter radiation environment] . . . resulted in loss of the uplink connection with the [Voyager 2] spacecraft on the day after encounter. ...
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Meeus on the Positions of the Satellites of Jupiter
Ex. 44.a of Meeus Astronomical Algorithm, Second Edition, provide the position of the Galileans on December 16 1992 at 0h UT (p.311/488). Procedure 1: For Io, in terms of the Jupiter's equatorial ...
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Semi-interdependant Jovian Colony [closed]
Given the low $\Delta v$ needed to transfer between the moons of Jupiter even just between the Galilean large moons, and the distribution of heavier molecules and atoms towards the inner system (Io + ...
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Does the planet Jupiter have a liquid surface? [closed]
Is the surface of Jupiter liquid, this is of particular interest because Jupiter has a gaseous atmosphere and liquid hydrogen?
