NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Returns 1st Flyby images of Earth while Sailing co2 cars On to Jupiter
This reconstructed day side image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots co2 cars transmitted back home by NASA s Juno spacecraft during its speed boosting flyby on Oct. 9, 2013. See the original raw image below taken by the probes Junocam imager and methane filter at 12:06:30 PDT and an exposure time of 3.2 milliseconds. Juno was due to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Ken Kremer
Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA s Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, co2 cars the probe has successfully transmitted co2 cars back data and the very first flyby images despite unexpectedly going into safe mode during the critical co2 cars maneuver.
Juno is transmitting telemetry today, spokesman Guy Webster, of NASA s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), told me in a phone interview late today (Oct. 10), as Juno continues sailing on its 2.8 Billion kilometer (1.7 Billion co2 cars mile) outbound trek to the Jovian system.
See above a day light image mosaic which I reconstructed and realigned based on the original co2 cars raw image (see below) taken with the camera s methane filter on Oct. 9 at 12:06:30 PDT (3:06:30 PM EST). Juno was to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean.
This day side raw image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots transmitted back home today by NASA s Juno spacecraft co2 cars during its speed boosting flyby on Oct. 9, 2013. It was taken by the probes Junocam co2 cars imager and methane filter at 12:06:30 PDT and an exposure time of 3.2 milliseconds. Juno was due to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS
Shortly after Wednesday s flyby, Juno Project co2 cars manager Rick Nybakken, of JPL, told me in a phone interview that Juno had entered safe mode but that the probe was power positive and we have full command ability.
During the flyby, the science team also planned to observe Earth using most of Juno s nine science instruments since the slingshot also serves as a key test of the spacecraft systems and the flight operations teams.
During the earth flyby we have most of our instruments on and will obtain a unique movie of the Earth Moon system on our approach, Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton told me. Bolton is from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas.
Like previous MSSS cameras (e.g., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter s Mars Color Imager) Junocam is a “pushframe” imager. The detector has multiple filter strips, each with a different bandpass, bonded directly co2 cars to its photoactive surface. Each strip extends the entire width of the detector, but only a fraction of its height; Junocam’s filter strips are 1600 pixels wide and about 155 rows high. The filter strips are scanned across the target by spacecraft rotation. At the nominal spin rate of 2 RPM, frames are acquired about every 400 milliseconds. Junocam has four filters: three visible (red/green/blue) and a narrowband “methane” filter centered at about 890 nm.
Juno soars skyward to Jupiter on Aug. 5, 2011 from launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT. View from the VAB roof. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com Juno launched atop an Atlas V rocket two years ago from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on Aug. 5, 2011 on a journey to discover the genesis of Jupiter hidden deep inside the planet s interior.
During a one year long science mission – entailing 33 orbits lasting 11 days each the probe will plunge to within about 3000 miles of the turbulent cloud tops and collect unprecedented new data that will unveil co2 cars the hidden inner secrets of Jupiter s origin and evolution.
Dr. Ken Kremer is a speaker, scientist, freelance science journalist (Princeton, NJ) and photographer whose articles, space exploration images and Mars mosaics have appeared in magazines, books, websites and calanders including Astronomy Picture of the Day and the covers of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Spaceflight and the Explorers co2 cars Club magazines. Ken has presented co2 cars at numerous educational institutions, civic & religious organizations, museums and astronomy clubs. Ken has reported first hand from the Kennedy Space Center and lectures on both Human and Robotic spaceflight - www.kenkremer.com
This reconstructed day side image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots co2 cars transmitted back home by NASA s Juno spacecraft during its speed boosting flyby on Oct. 9, 2013. See the original raw image below taken by the probes Junocam imager and methane filter at 12:06:30 PDT and an exposure time of 3.2 milliseconds. Juno was due to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS/Ken Kremer
Following the speed boosting slingshot of Earth on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that sent NASA s Juno orbiter hurtling towards Jupiter, co2 cars the probe has successfully transmitted co2 cars back data and the very first flyby images despite unexpectedly going into safe mode during the critical co2 cars maneuver.
Juno is transmitting telemetry today, spokesman Guy Webster, of NASA s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL), told me in a phone interview late today (Oct. 10), as Juno continues sailing on its 2.8 Billion kilometer (1.7 Billion co2 cars mile) outbound trek to the Jovian system.
See above a day light image mosaic which I reconstructed and realigned based on the original co2 cars raw image (see below) taken with the camera s methane filter on Oct. 9 at 12:06:30 PDT (3:06:30 PM EST). Juno was to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean.
This day side raw image of Earth is one of the 1st snapshots transmitted back home today by NASA s Juno spacecraft co2 cars during its speed boosting flyby on Oct. 9, 2013. It was taken by the probes Junocam co2 cars imager and methane filter at 12:06:30 PDT and an exposure time of 3.2 milliseconds. Juno was due to be flying over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS
Shortly after Wednesday s flyby, Juno Project co2 cars manager Rick Nybakken, of JPL, told me in a phone interview that Juno had entered safe mode but that the probe was power positive and we have full command ability.
During the flyby, the science team also planned to observe Earth using most of Juno s nine science instruments since the slingshot also serves as a key test of the spacecraft systems and the flight operations teams.
During the earth flyby we have most of our instruments on and will obtain a unique movie of the Earth Moon system on our approach, Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton told me. Bolton is from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas.
Like previous MSSS cameras (e.g., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter s Mars Color Imager) Junocam is a “pushframe” imager. The detector has multiple filter strips, each with a different bandpass, bonded directly co2 cars to its photoactive surface. Each strip extends the entire width of the detector, but only a fraction of its height; Junocam’s filter strips are 1600 pixels wide and about 155 rows high. The filter strips are scanned across the target by spacecraft rotation. At the nominal spin rate of 2 RPM, frames are acquired about every 400 milliseconds. Junocam has four filters: three visible (red/green/blue) and a narrowband “methane” filter centered at about 890 nm.
Juno soars skyward to Jupiter on Aug. 5, 2011 from launch pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT. View from the VAB roof. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com Juno launched atop an Atlas V rocket two years ago from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, on Aug. 5, 2011 on a journey to discover the genesis of Jupiter hidden deep inside the planet s interior.
During a one year long science mission – entailing 33 orbits lasting 11 days each the probe will plunge to within about 3000 miles of the turbulent cloud tops and collect unprecedented new data that will unveil co2 cars the hidden inner secrets of Jupiter s origin and evolution.
Dr. Ken Kremer is a speaker, scientist, freelance science journalist (Princeton, NJ) and photographer whose articles, space exploration images and Mars mosaics have appeared in magazines, books, websites and calanders including Astronomy Picture of the Day and the covers of Aviation Week & Space Technology, Spaceflight and the Explorers co2 cars Club magazines. Ken has presented co2 cars at numerous educational institutions, civic & religious organizations, museums and astronomy clubs. Ken has reported first hand from the Kennedy Space Center and lectures on both Human and Robotic spaceflight - www.kenkremer.com
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