NASA’s Jupiter space probe – Juno spacecraft is gearing up for another close flyby of Jupiter, and the parental agency is about to make the mission more self-governing. The US-based independent space agency is going to arrange a public opinion poll for the arrangement of the camera on its Juno Spacecraft, for the next close flyby. Under the new public poll, NASA will follow the decision of general people to put its JunoCam sensor in the space probe, for clicking Jupiter, during close approach.
The next and fourth PJ PeriJove or Juno’s Orbit is programmed for second February. This is the second time, that NASA is organizing the public poll to decide where Juno will point its camera. The voting line for PJ4 is already open.
Juno Spaceship, which was launched on 5 August 2011 has recently completed orbiting the Southern Pole of the gas planet – Jupiter and now is being prepared for rounding its the North Pole. The 53-day orbital of South Pole was extremely elliptical, and most parts of it used up at a substantial distance from Jupiter. However, in its next orbiting mission, the space probe will take a close flyby to the North Pole of the gas planet. In this orbiting, the most pivotal role will be played by the camera of the spaceship – JunoCam.
The duration of the flyby of Juno Spaceship, from the North Pole to the South Pole is scheduled for two hours and these two hours will facilitate the probe to click stunning close-up photographs of the planet. As the duration is quite brief, Juno will only aim some particular points of interest of the plant, for an in-depth imaging. However, despite the significance of the camera positioning, NASA has decided to give the general public the opportunity to decide – on which zone of Jupiter, the JunoCam will focus more.
In the latest new release, Candy Hansen, the co-investigator of Juno at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said, “The pictures of Jupiter, clicked by the JunoCam can lead the scientists towards more explorative details about the giant gas planet, so the points of interest areas matter a lot. They imagery of JunoCam will play a very important role in assisting the Juno scientists to establish on the regular activities in Jupiter’s atmosphere.”
Through the arrangement of the public poll, we are looking forward to knowing what people, outside the scientific community, think about the space projects, added Hansen.
The next and fourth PJ PeriJove or Juno’s Orbit is programmed for second February. This is the second time, that NASA is organizing the public poll to decide where Juno will point its camera. The voting line for PJ4 is already open.
Juno Spaceship, which was launched on 5 August 2011 has recently completed orbiting the Southern Pole of the gas planet – Jupiter and now is being prepared for rounding its the North Pole. The 53-day orbital of South Pole was extremely elliptical, and most parts of it used up at a substantial distance from Jupiter. However, in its next orbiting mission, the space probe will take a close flyby to the North Pole of the gas planet. In this orbiting, the most pivotal role will be played by the camera of the spaceship – JunoCam.
The duration of the flyby of Juno Spaceship, from the North Pole to the South Pole is scheduled for two hours and these two hours will facilitate the probe to click stunning close-up photographs of the planet. As the duration is quite brief, Juno will only aim some particular points of interest of the plant, for an in-depth imaging. However, despite the significance of the camera positioning, NASA has decided to give the general public the opportunity to decide – on which zone of Jupiter, the JunoCam will focus more.
In the latest new release, Candy Hansen, the co-investigator of Juno at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, said, “The pictures of Jupiter, clicked by the JunoCam can lead the scientists towards more explorative details about the giant gas planet, so the points of interest areas matter a lot. They imagery of JunoCam will play a very important role in assisting the Juno scientists to establish on the regular activities in Jupiter’s atmosphere.”
Through the arrangement of the public poll, we are looking forward to knowing what people, outside the scientific community, think about the space projects, added Hansen.