{"id":5628,"date":"2013-12-11T06:04:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T06:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5628"},"modified":"2013-12-11T06:04:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T06:04:20","slug":"video-juno-probe-produces-great-view-of-the-earth-moon-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5628","title":{"rendered":"Video: Juno probe produces great view of the Earth-Moon system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool video of the earth and moon taken by the <a href=\"http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Juno probe <\/a>as it came it to get its kick to Jupiter from the earth:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/juno\/juno-earth-flyby-20131210.html#.Uqf7VdJDttB\" target=\"_d\">NASA&#8217;s Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_CzBlSXgzqI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system. One of Juno&#8217;s sensors, a special kind of camera optimized to track faint stars, also had a unique view of the Earth-moon system. The result was an intriguing, low-resolution glimpse of what our world would look like to a visitor from afar.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, \u2018Take us home, Scotty,\u2019 this is what the crew would see,&#8221; said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio. \u201cIn the movie, you ride aboard Juno as it approaches Earth and then soars off into the blackness of space. No previous view of our world has ever captured the heavenly waltz of Earth and moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Juno Earth flyby movie is available at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_CzBlSXgzqI&amp;feature=youtu.be\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_CzBlSXgzqI&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a>\u00a0. The music accompaniment is an original score by Vangelis.<\/p>\n<p>The cameras that took the images for the movie are located near the pointed tip of one of the spacecraft&#8217;s three solar-array arms. They are part of Juno&#8217;s Magnetic Field Investigation (MAG) and are normally used to determine the orientation of the magnetic sensors. These cameras look away from the sunlit side of the solar array, so as the spacecraft approached, the system&#8217;s four cameras pointed toward Earth. Earth and the moon came into view when Juno was about 600,000 miles (966,000 kilometers) away &#8212; about three times the Earth-moon separation.<\/p>\n<p>During the flyby, timing was everything. Juno was traveling about twice as fast as a typical satellite, and the spacecraft itself was spinning at 2 rpm. To assemble a movie that wouldn&#8217;t make viewers dizzy, the star tracker had to capture a frame each time the camera was facing Earth at exactly the right instant. The frames were sent to Earth, where they were processed into video format.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything we humans are and everything we do is represented in that view,&#8221; said the star tracker&#8217;s designer, John J\u00f8rgensen of the Danish Technical University, near Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>Also during the flyby, Juno&#8217;s Waves instrument, which is tasked with measuring radio and plasma waves in Jupiter&#8217;s magnetosphere, recorded amateur radio signals. This was part of a public outreach effort involving ham radio operators from around the world. They were invited to say &#8220;HI&#8221; to Juno by coordinating radio transmissions that carried the same Morse-coded message. Operators from every continent, including Antarctica, participated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the Earth flyby completed, Juno is now on course for arrival at Jupiter on July 4, 2016,&#8221; said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>The Juno spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 5, 2011. Juno\u2019s launch vehicle was capable of giving the spacecraft only enough energy to reach the asteroid belt, at which point the sun\u2019s gravity pulled it back toward the inner solar system. Mission planners designed the swing by Earth as a gravity assist to increase the spacecraft\u2019s speed relative to the sun, so that it could reach Jupiter. (The spacecraft\u2019s speed relative to Earth before and after the flyby is unchanged.)<\/p>\n<p>After Juno arrives and enters into orbit around Jupiter in 2016, the spacecraft will circle the planet 33 times, from pole to pole, and use its collection of science instruments to probe beneath the gas giant&#8217;s obscuring cloud cover. Scientists will learn about Jupiter&#8217;s origins, internal structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Juno&#8217;s name comes from Greek and Roman mythology. The god Jupiter drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief from his wife, but the goddess Juno used her special powers to peer through the clouds and reveal Jupiter&#8217;s true nature.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA&#8217;s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Juno is online at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/juno\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/juno<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/missionjuno.swri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a cool video of the earth and moon taken by the Juno probe as it came it to get its kick to Jupiter from the earth: NASA&#8217;s Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby When NASA\u2019s Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Juno probe produces great view of the Earth-Moon system<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-media","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1sM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12850,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12850","url_meta":{"origin":5628,"position":0},"title":"Video: NASA TV coverage of arrival of Juno probe at Jupiter","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's Juno spacecraft will fire its engine to go into orbit around Jupiter this evening:\u00a0Live coverage: Juno spacecraft hours away from arriving at Jupiter \u2013 Spaceflight Now By the time engineers on Earth receive confirmation of the start of Juno's one-shot Jupiter Orbit Insertion burn at 11:18 p.m. EDT (0318\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, et al","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=87"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/kjfQCTat-8s\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12839,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12839","url_meta":{"origin":5628,"position":1},"title":"Videos: Update on Juno mission to Jupiter + Apple documentary","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Juno probe\u00a0is set to go into orbit around Jupiter on Monday (see earlier posting here):\u00a0NASA\u2019s Juno to Kick into Planned Autopilot for July 4 Jupiter Burn -\u00a0NASA. 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