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NASA's Juno Spacecraft Braves Jupiter Radiation For a 4th of July Arrival (blastingnews.com)
MarkWhittington writes: July 4, if all goes well, will be an occasion for celebration at NASA as the Juno spacecraft, after a nearly five-year voyage, will go into orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. Juno will spend its time in a zone of intense radiation, against which it has been armored, in an effort to ferret out Jupiter's secrets. By so doing, NASA hopes to gain insights into the origin of the solar system as well as gaining more knowledge of the gas giant, comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium with trace elements of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur.
How does the Juno spacecraft and all these other useless missions affect anyone? Nobody will ever colonize Mars. It's a barren wasteland. The cloud tops of Venus are far better, but nobody is interested in even trying. Jupiter isn't worth exploring. Besides, nobody alive today will ever build a successful colony on any planet. How does this affect me or anyone else? I don't know anyone visiting Jupiter. I'm sure I'll be censored to -1 for asking, but the wasteful spending needs to be justified. My tax dollars have better uses, like stopping global warming or curing cancer. Stop the madness!
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of glowing auroras over Jupiter just days before NASA's new Juno spaceship arrives to orbit the gas giant. "These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen," said Jonathan Nichols from the University of Leicester, UK, and principal investigator of the study.
"It almost seems as if Jupiter is throwing a fireworks party for the imminent arrival of Juno,..
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If it is composed mainly of Hydrogen and Helium, why is it considered a planet?
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Jupiter is the largest planet? Gosh, had that not been in the sentence none of us would ever have figured that out. This is news for nerds, not news for planettists. Thank you, intrepid editors, for understanding and saving me from confusion!
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Space exploration has a dangerous risk of contaminating other worlds and destroying their indigenous life. Such things may well have happened already on Mars, where Earth-based microbes hitched a ride on the many landers and rovers. In an alien environment, with a complete lack of predators, the Earth microbes could have then proceeded to wipe out any indigenous microbes on Mars. We must be extremely careful in any space exploration because we can't possibly know the places life and extremophiles could exist, but we should take care not to wipe them out with invasive species from Earth.
Throughout Earth's history, we've seen invasive species wreak havoc in new environments, yet we don't show appropriate caution with space exploration. Quite possibly the worst invasive species infestation was the spread of niggers from Africa to North America. However well-intentioned the transport of niggers might have been, it created a travesty in North America in which niggers invade and destroy previously thriving white neighborhoods. Despite the massive murder rate among niggers, the deaths of otherwise fertile niggers is insufficient to keep the population in check. This is largely due to the extreme fertility of nigger hoes and the tendency of nigger bucks to inseminate a nigger hoe and then quickly move on to other nigger hoes. Neither nigger crime nor HIV have been able to successfully limit the rapid growth of bigger populations. And upon reaching critical mass, as seen in places like Ferguson and Baltimore, niggers can and will destroy everything around them, wreaking irreversible damage on their environments. This does not occur in Africa, mostly due to the lack of welfare checks paid by whites and predators such as tigers and lions that do not exist in North America. While contained on plantations, niggers were not particularly harmful and we're unable to spread as an invasive species. However, once released to the environment, they have proceeded to migrate into new areas, leaving a trail of destruction as they destroy once prosperous white neighborhoods. Let this be a cautionary tale for all spacefaring journeys, to not allow invasive species into new environments.
lets all celebrate! Next year on july 4th we will be invaded by them! (by a larger force obviously).
that means jupiter could be the solar system's gas station someday
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for the images sent back by JunoCam. It's actually not one of the scientific instruments; NASA says it is rather there for outreach to the public at large. But still - imagine what eye-wateringly beautiful images of Jupiter's cloud tops we may get. Moreover, think of a "pale blue dot" shot through Jovian wisps. I remember being a teenage boy, much engrossed with astronomy (I had my own telescope, bought on "credit on my pocket money"), when the first Voyager images came in. They were printed in a paper magazine - there was no internet back in those times. The images nailed me down on my seat for many, many hours. And now... Juno. Wow. Glad to be alive in these times!
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What happens if the nozzles fail to work and it keeps going? Will it get a second chance, like Japan's Venus probe?
Table-ized A.I.
I mean weren't we very clearly told not to go there?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... time... to... die...
To the real deal. Not some shiity site that makes you answer surveys to read content. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_p...
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I only wrote two sentences yet you posted without reading the second one. Good job Rusty!
Texas Instruments were huge without a lot of military work as an example.