[FOTZeiss] Fw: Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon

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--- On Tue, 8/30/11, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory <info at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

From: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory <info at jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon
To: "Glenn Walsh" <siderostat1991 at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 7:48 PM


    
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                Image advisory: 2011-271                                                                    Aug. 30, 2011

                

                Jupiter-Bound Space Probe Captures Earth And Moon 

                

                The full version of this story with accompanying images is at: 

                http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-271&cid=release_2011-271

                

                PASADENA, Calif. – On its way to the biggest planet in the solar system -- Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft took time to capture its home planet and its natural satellite -- the moon.

                

                "This is a remarkable sight people get to see all too rarely," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.  "This view of our planet shows how Earth looks from the outside, illustrating a special perspective of our role and place in the universe.  We see a humbling yet beautiful view of ourselves."

                

                The image was taken by the spacecraft's camera, JunoCam, on Aug. 26 when the spacecraft was about 6 million miles (9.66 million kilometers) away. The image was taken as part of the mission team's checkout of the Juno spacecraft.  The team is conducting its initial detailed checks on the spacecraft's instruments and subsystems after its launch on Aug. 5. 

                

                Juno covered the distance from Earth to the moon (about 250,000 miles or 402,000 kilometers) in less than one day's time. It will take the spacecraft another five years and 1,740 million miles (2,800 million kilometers) to complete the journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft will orbit the planet's poles 33 times and use its eight science instruments to probe beneath the gas giant's obscuring cloud cover to learn more about its origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere, and look for a potential solid planetary core.

                

                The solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) on Aug. 5 to begin its five-year journey to Jupiter.

                

                JPL manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

                

                More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu . You can follow the mission on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/nasajuno .
                

                

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                Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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                Dwayne Brown 202-358-1726

                NASA Headquarters, Washington 

                dwayne.c.brown at nasa.gov
                
                

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