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New images of Jupiter

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428 points 0xFACEFEED | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 07:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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Aachen ◴[06 Nov 24 11:27 UTC] No.42060292[source]▶
These come from Juno, a mission sent in 2011 and orbiting Jupiter since 2016. Must say it wasn't really on my radar anymore, but looking at the timeline on Wikipedia, it's still going around and getting close ("perijove") every month and a week or so, at an ever-increasing longitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)#Timeline The planned end of the mission is in about a year. The camera was "included in the payload to facilitate education and public outreach [but] later re-purposed to study the dynamics of Jupiter's clouds"
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foobarbecue ◴[06 Nov 24 14:21 UTC] No.42062676[source]▶
Yeah, they had to fight so hard to get that camera on there! It was not included in the initial designs since it wasn't necessary for the science objectives.
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1. ClumsyPilot ◴[06 Nov 24 16:41 UTC] No.42064960[source]▶
> It was not included in the initial designs

That’s why NASA is poor and pentagon is rich.

To me as a taxpayer, if there are no cool pictures, it doesn’t exist.

If they were politically shrewd, camera would be the biggest instrument.

And the next probe that will dive into the sun would carry the bullet that killed Kennedy or a shot off piece from Trump’s ear.

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2. slashdave ◴[06 Nov 24 17:20 UTC] No.42065651[source]▶
NASA's PR department makes the Pentagon look like amateurs.