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Juno Probe To Get First Up-Close Look At Jupiter On Saturday (space.com)
NASA's Juno spacecraft will get its first up-close view at Jupiter this Saturday. Space.com reports: "At 8:51 a.m. EDT (1251 GMT) on Saturday (Aug. 27), Juno will zoom within 2,600 miles (4,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops -- closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission, NASA officials said. And Juno will have all of its science instruments during Saturday's flyby. This was not the case during the spacecraft's only previous close approach to Jupiter, which occurred July 4 when Juno arrived in orbit around the giant planet. During Saturday's close pass, all eight of Juno's science instruments will be collecting data, and the probe's visible-light imager, known as JunoCam, will take close-up photos." You can also look forward to Venus-Jupiter Conjunction 2016, an event happening on August 27 where Venus and Jupiter's respective orbits will bring the two planets the closest that they'll be to each other until 2065. The two planets will be positioned roughly five degrees above the Western horizon on August 27.
4,000 km is extremely close! Voyager 1's closest flyby was 349,000 km (Voyager 2 was 570,000 km). Sounds promising...
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"Juno will zoom within 2,600 miles (4,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops -- closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission, NASA officials said."
so this is an unscheduled approach? how much autonomy does Juno have?
yeah, i know, nitpicking, but i am assuming someone gets paid to write this drivel.
captcha: grammar
You're obviously confusing with this Juno.
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Capitalized for proper name cardinality.
"closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission" - so, getting this close was unscheduled?
No, *Juno* - your case worker.
Actually I thank them: for once we have both units, km and miles, and even GMT time (it's actually UTC, but, hey, let's not be too pedantic this time)
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...closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission
This is not part of the mission? Lucky mistake that it is working out so well!
I'm still a a bit woosy from all of the doctor fun, but, what??
Juno [is now] closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission,
That sounds like the probe is out of control, if it's now closer than it's ever supposed to be. It's just weird phrasing here, right?? Or were they really NOT joking when they said no driving, no important decisions for 24 hours?
Me: I'm just fIIIIne officer, I haven't had to much to drink today, rEEEEally. My, you're looking very fine and skinny today.
Officer: Stop talking to the lamppost; I'm over here.
They didn't mention the time because it depends where you are located. The article says the planets will be ~5 deg above horizon AT SUNSET and of course the sun sets at a different time depending where you are on the planet. It would have been nice if the summary had mentioned timing with the sunset, though.
Also, Western is capitalized because it is the proper name of a direction.
"You can also look forward to Venus-Jupiter Conjunction 2016, an event happening on August 27 where Venus and Jupiter's respective orbits will bring the two planets the closest that they'll be to each other until 2065."
I suggest the author of this shit take a refresher course in astronomy. He'll discover that a conjunction has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the actual positions of the planets in the solar system.
Um, no. It's capitalised only when referring to the name of the region.
Juno will zoom within 2,600 miles (4,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops -- closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission
Which makes it sound like it's not supposed to come that close to Jupiter. Obviously it is scheduled to come that close to Jupiter - the actual article says it's the "closest" it will come, not "closer" than it is scheduled to.
Better known as 318230.
You're obviously feeling a little 'flat' today.
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Obviously I offended the 8 year old drop-outs in the audience.
Slashdot editors get little credit for the space.com quote, all they did was to select it and not mess with it. frovingslosh is referring to the editor's own writings below.
And what German wrote that sentence with a capital letter for a noun?
OK FBI.
Just stare into space while the rest of the stories on this page are all FBI related.
Maybe FBI goes to another planet?
Seems to me that there are plenty of sites on the internet for uneducated people. It may be that many of those populating /. nowadays would be better served by those other sites.
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...except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.
Couldn't resist. Like well timed farts it never gets old.