
Too Long?
"...You can expect us to release some information about our findings around September 1.""
That's an awful lot of "Are we there yet"s from the back seat.
Looking forward to what's forthcoming!
NASA is firing up the nine scientific instruments on board the Juno probe orbiting Jupiter ahead of its first data collection mission. The spacecraft successfully went into orbit around the solar system's largest resident on July 4 after a five-year trip and has used some of the instruments already to take pictures as it …
Steadily new probes are sent into space to reveal more of the solar system, meanwhile the quest for bigger telescopes continues on Earth with the 30 meter telescope and the E-ELT, European-Extremely Large Telescope which will be finished in 4-6 years. These telescopes will be able to do close ups of Jupiter sized planets.
Ah, a saying from when Colonial Marines ladies were artfully piloting dropships from orbit into harm's way, not even removing the Ray Bans (having overly confident mariens and some unhinged civvies meant to do "consulting" in the cargo hold).
Those were the times, when America was Great...
"...and a tool for measuring gravity via radio waves"
OK, now I'm wondering quite how that works?
I'm sure the mental image it conjures up of measuring the Doppler shift of a Chris Evans broadcast from a DAB dropped down into the Jovian atmosphere probably isn't quite correct somehow.
Are we at the seaside yet Daddy?
I need a wee.....
The cheese and tomato sandwiches will be very soggy by then too....
With my sensible head on, one assumes that the results of the Juno mission may lead to the next probe going in to Jovian atmosphere for a closer look. It'll most likely be a suicide mission as what we already (think) know shows it not to be very hospitable...