NASA Jupiter Probe Makes 4th Flyby of Giant Planet

Space.com ^ | 2 Feb, 2017 | Mike Wall

[MtnClimber]

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NASA's Juno spacecraft has flown by Jupiter for the fourth time.

Juno skimmed about 2,670 miles (4,300 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops at 7:57 a.m. EST (1257 GMT) this morning (Feb. 2), zooming by at 129,000 mph (208,000 km/h) relative to the giant planet, NASA officials said.

All eight of Juno's science instruments were on and collecting data during the flyby if all went according to plan, they added.

"Revelations include that Jupiter's magnetic fields and aurora are bigger and more powerful than originally thought and that the belts and zones that give the gas giant's cloud top its distinctive look extend deep into the planet's interior," NASA officials wrote in a statement today. "Peer-reviewed papers with more in-depth science results from Juno's first three flybys are expected to be published within the next few months."

[DannyTN]

People of Jupiter should be getting really agitated about now.

[MtnClimber]

Seems data is just being evaluated. Big question: Why are the planet compositions so different from each other and from the sun.

[UCANSEE2]

Why are the planet compositions so different from each other and from the sun.

For me, that is a question that would require extensive research and endless pondering.

[ETL]

I wonder if they'll take photos of the flag our astronauts planted on the "surface" of Jupiter decades ago?

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Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
From Texas's 18th district

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]

Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.

http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee

[MtnClimber]

Didn’t NASA plant her photo on Uranus to frighten off possible space alien invaders?

[ETL]

I think read somewhere that that planet was named after her.

[BenLurkin]

Wait until Cher Bono gets there. Then they will be very po’d.

[politicianslie]

On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news

That is racist. It's like saying Hussein Obama didn't know what Muslim terrorism is.

[dr_lew]

"Revelations include that Jupiter's magnetic fields and aurora are bigger and more powerful than originally thought and that the belts and zones that give the gas giant's cloud top its distinctive look extend deep into the planet's interior," NASA officials wrote in a statement today.

My life will never be the same.

[PIF]

The local Dwellers were not particularly pleased, but mostly bored when the probe first appeared above their cloud tops.

Many at first believed the probe was some sort of new toy for the local war game competition. However, when it failed to so much as fire a small nuke, they got bored and went back to ignoring it.

Lucky us.