10 Dec 2013 - NASA's Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby

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10 Dec 2013 - NASA's Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby
"If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,' this is what the crew would see," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio.


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[Bongo]

Here is the video, It actually made me laugh

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_CzBlSXgzqI

Posted by NASA (here)
"If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,' this is what the crew would see," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator at the Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio.

And that quote is even better hahaha

[pine boy]

Juno goes by our planet so fast...Amazing footage.I can't wait to see Jupiter with all the moons.It's a favorite of mine for viewing.
Too cool!

[Skywizard]

by Megan Gannon, News Editor, published on SPACE.com.

NASA's Juno spacecraft captured an amazing "starship-like view" of Earth and the moon as it made a speedy flyby past our planet on its way to Jupiter in October.

"If Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise said, 'Take us home, Scotty,' this is what the crew would see," Scott Bolton, the principal investigator for Juno at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a statement from NASA. "In the movie, you ride aboard Juno as it approaches Earth and then soars off into the blackness of space. No previous view of our world has ever captured the heavenly waltz of Earth and moon."

NASA unveiled the video of Earth and the moon by Juno Tuesday (Dec. 10) during the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. The low-resolution video shows the Earth spinning and growing larger in the frame as Jupiter-bound Juno makes its closest approach during the Oct. 9 Earth flyby. The images were captured using four special cameras aboard Juno that are designed to track faint stars.

Earth and the moon first came into Juno's view when the spacecraft was about 600,000 miles (966,000 kilometers) away, NASA officials said. Since Juno itself was spinning, the images had to be taken from the same Earth-facing angle each time.

"Everything we humans are and everything we do is represented in that view," John Jørgensen of the Danish Technical University, said in a statement.

The Juno spacecraft launched on Aug. 5, 2011, riding an Atlas 5 rocket into space from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft only had enough power to reach the asteroid belt before the sun's gravity pulled it back toward the inner solar system. As such, mission planners had to chart a circuitous route for Juno to get it to its destination.

The spacecraft flew past Earth two months ago as a "gravity assist" to increase the spacecraft's velocity relative to the sun. This slingshot around our planet boosted Juno from a speed of 78,000 mph (126,000 km/h) relative to the sun to a speed of 87,000 mph (140,000 km/h).

As it zipped past the planet, the spacecraft's JunoCam also captured a stunning picture of Earth with a higher resolution than the newly released images.

Additionally, ham radio operators from around the world had a chance to say "HI" to Juno during the flyby by coordinating radio transmissions with a Morse-coded message. The radio signals were recorded by Juno's Waves instrument, which eventually will measure radio and plasma waves in Jupiter's magnetosphere, according to NASA.

Mission officials say Juno is now on course to arrive in a polar orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016. The spacecraft is supposed to circle the planet 33 times, using its instruments to peer beneath the dense cloud cover that hides our solar system's largest planet.

Scientists hope the $1.1 million mission will help answer longstanding questions about Jupiter — such as whether or not it has a core — and that it will shed light on the planet's origins, atmosphere and magnetosphere.


Source: http://news.yahoo.com/39-starship-vi...230545049.html


peace...
skywizard

[Bongo]

Posted by pine boy (here)
Amazing footage.

Really? in this day and age we have telescopes that can see the farthest regions of space that saw that quasars are actually very distant young galaxies. We are in the HD age where everything is crystal clear to the point that we can actually see just how much actors are caked in make up.... but yet we can never seem to produce any good film footage from space (further out than earth orbit) especially from something like this that could have been absolutely brilliant had it been clear to watch. If that had been clear and we could have seen earth clearly with the moon passing by it would have been breath taking. The image artifacts in that youtube video is ridiculous, we are in 2013, nearly 2014... we have the technology to perform this task, these projects are supposed to have the most cutting edge equipment and yet something like this always seems to escape their grasp.

[pine boy]

So, I take it you were not impressed by the theatrics of one of our satellites passing by our own planet?
Granted it would be better if it was clear and H.D. but its still awsome to me to see our world from outside looking in.
Blurry or not it's quite a spectacle.
I do agree that we should get more for our tax dollars but I'll also be carefull what I wish for.
Guaranteed,the lenses on us see clearly.Differant topic ,differant day