Jupiter & Beyond - The host of the Seraphim

[NeonsStyle]

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Edited July 6, 2016 by NeonsStyle

[jaxa]

 

[lowenz]

 

Every time I read that we can send a machine perfectly working @the edge of our home system.....I cry. A bit.....for our bit of promethean divinity !

Yes, we stole gods (Jupiter, really not intended ) fire.

Edited July 6, 2016 by lowenz

[demagogue]

I saw the article on this and my first reaction was like, ok, another day, another probe, another planet. But as I actually read the article I got more and more excited. The way it described this probe practically skimming over the very cloud tops (by space standards, only a 1000 km or so), and probing right into the murky depths sounded really cool. I'm so interested in some close up cloud photos and some idea of what's swirling in those depths, how deep the Red Spot might really go, what's really in the center...

 

We live in cool days, my friends. Never let the mediocrity of everyday life let you forget it.

[jaxa]

The way it described this probe practically skimming over the very cloud tops (by space standards, only a 1000 km or so)

 

Not to mention the harsh radiation environment that necessitates an elongated orbit so the orbiter can dip in for 14 hours, get out, transfer data for weeks, and do it over and over again for the relatively short 2-year life of the mission.

[NeonsStyle]

Or the rings riddled with micro-asteroids that would make mince meat of any probe that touched even a speck of it at the 100,000+ mph it's travelling at perijune.