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European Space Agency Invited To Contribute a Lander To NASA's Europa Clipper
MarkWhittington writes According to a story in Spaceflight Now, NASA has invited the European Space Agency to participate in its upcoming Europa Clipper project. Europa Clipper, pushed by Rep. John Culberson, the chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees NASA, recently received backing from the Obama administration. Europa Clipper would launch in the early 2020s and would be placed in an orbit around Jupiter that would cause it to fly by Europa, a moon of Jupiter, at least 45 times during its operational life.
I don't get why this article is on slashdot. Is it because the average reader might think ESA has not contributed to NASA missions before? Because it is the first time a lander may be the contribution? I don't think these are the case, NASA rarely does any mission without collaborations.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
I strongly suspect she'd be a big fan of the Space: 1999 style unisex pantssuit.
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It's a trap.
When Europe gets the blame for ATTEMPTING A LANDING, ALL THE REST OF THESE WORLDS ARE BELONG TO US ! ! !
Either that, or there's a loophole where it's ok for Europe to land on Europa.
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NASA is a fine tool with which to start repairing a severely damaged reputation and to draw attention away from the totally out of control US military industrial complex. A commercial dive into space is likely the only thing that could preserve elements of US lead economics. All other facets of that are evaporating as we speak under the harsh glare of exposed high level corruption.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
The solar wind never gets anywhere near Jupiter's atmosphere. Jupiter has an absurdly strong magnetic field. The magnetopause is between 50 about 100 Jupiter radii from the planet, and the solar wind is deflected around it (Khurana et al., 2004). The jovian aurorae are powered by currents entirely within the magnetosphere (Jupiter's rotation and Io's plasma).