Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.3801s&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #38.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.790
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
New Horizons is NASA's reconnaissance mission to explore the Pluto system and small Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs). I will describe the mission's history, current status, and instrument suite. I will then describe the Jupiter gravity assist flyby New Horizons conducted in early-mid 2007. This flyby involved over 700 observations in the Jupiter system, and represents the only spacecraft encounter with Jupiter planned to occur between the demise of Galileo in 2003 and the arrival of Juno in 2016. I will focus on results obtained, including the first-ever exploration of a giant planet magnetotail, new compositional observations of icy Galilean satellites, exploration of Jupiter's tenuous ring system, the first high-resolution spacecraft imagery of Jupiter's newly-generated little red spot, and the first-ever time-lapse imagery of an Ionian volcano eruption.
No associations
LandOfFree
New Horizons at Jupiter does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with New Horizons at Jupiter, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and New Horizons at Jupiter will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1476669