{"id":42376,"date":"2005-06-09T19:30:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T11:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-makes-selection-on-jupiter-mission\/"},"modified":"2005-06-09T19:30:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T11:30:38","slug":"nasa-makes-selection-on-jupiter-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-makes-selection-on-jupiter-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA makes selection on Jupiter mission"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA has selected a Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientist to lead the next mission to Jupiter. The mission, named Juno, will be the first to perform an in-depth examination of the giant planet.
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The spacecraft will enter polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate whether the planet has an ice-rock core, measure the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere, study atmospheric convection and deep wind profiles, investigate the origin of the magnetic field and examine the polar magnetosphere.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter contains more matter than all the other planets combined,\u201d says Juno Principal Investigator Dr. Scott Bolton, director of the Space Science Department in the SwRI Space Science and Engineering Division. \u201cBy determining how much water is in the planet, we complete the inventory of the key ingredients that make up the planet, and that will allow us to figure out the billion-year-old recipe that made the first planets in our solar system.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mission is the second in NASA\u2019s New Frontiers Program. Team members now begin a preliminary design study, leading up to a mission review to address schedule, technical and cost risks before NASA confirms the spacecraft for development.<\/p>\n

SwRI will also provide two science instruments for the mission.<\/p>\n

JADE, the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment, will measure the auroral electron and ion populations along the planet\u2019s magnetic field lines and determine which particle populations create the jovian aurora.<\/p>\n

\u201cJADE will allow us to make the first direct measurements of the particles that precipitate into Jupiter\u2019s atmosphere and produce its stunning auroral displays,\u201d says Dr. David J. McComas, senior executive director of Space Science and Engineering, who serves as principal investigator of the instrument.<\/p>\n

The second instrument, the Juno Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS), will image ultraviolet emissions from the jovian aurora, allowing space scientists to relate these auroral observations with JADE observations of the particle populations that create them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Prototype of nuclear-fueled JIMO spacecraft.
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\u201cThe Juno UVS will provide Hubble-like images of Jupiter\u2019s powerful and dynamic aurora, but from the much better vantage points of directly above the north and south poles,\u201d says Dr. G. Randall Gladstone, an Institute scientist at SwRI who serves as the UVS principal investigator.<\/p>\n

For the Juno mission, SwRI is partnering with NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which will manage the mission, and Lockheed Martin Space Systems, which will build the spacecraft. A number of U.S. and international scientists from other institutions will also participate. Launch of the $700 million mission will occur no later than June 30, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA has selected a Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientist to lead the next mission to Jupiter. The mission, named Juno, will be the first to perform an in-depth examination of the giant planet. The spacecraft will enter polar orbit around Jupiter to investigate whether the planet has an ice-rock core, measure the amount of water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}