The Juno Mission

ISBN-13: 9789402415599 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 644 str.

Scott Bolton

Opis

The Juno mission to Jupiter is one of most ambitious, daring and challenging solar system exploration missions ever conceived.

Spis treści

Editorial: Topical Collection of the Juno Mission Science Objectives, Instruments, and Implementation.- The Juno Mission.- Magnetospheric Science Objectives of the Juno Mission.-The Juno Gravity Science Instrument.- MWR: Microwave Radiometer for the Juno Mission to Jupiter.- The Juno Magnetic Field Investigation.-JIRAM, the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper.- The Ultraviolet Spectrograph on NASA’s Juno Mission.- Junocam: Juno’s Outreach Camera.- The Juno Radiation Monitoring (RM) Investigation.- The Juno Waves Investigation.- The Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument (JEDI) Investigation for the Juno Mission.- The Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) on the Juno Mission to Jupiter.- High-Precision Laboratory Measurements Supporting Retrieval of Water Vapor, Gaseous Ammonia, and Aqueous Ammonia Clouds with the Juno Microwave Radiometer (MWR).

O autorze

Dr. Scott Bolton is an Associate Vice President at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio, Texas.  Dr. Bolton is also the Principal Investigator for the Juno project. Dr. Bolton has more than 30 years experience in the field of aerospace and space science. He has held a wide range of positions, including those associated with mission design, engineering, scientific research and program management for various space missions related to NASA’s exploration of the Earth, the solar system, and the fields of astrophysics and space physics. His research includes the modeling of the Jovian and Saturnian radiation belts, planetary and astrophysical synchrotron emission, atmospheric dynamics and composition, and the formation and evolution of the solar system.  He has consulted and appeared on numerous space science documentaries.  

Blurb

The Juno mission to Jupiter is one of the most ambitious, daring and challenging solar system exploration missions ever conceived. Next to the Sun, Jupiter is the largest object in our solar system. As such, it is both a record and driver of the formation and evolution of the planets -- no other object in our solar system can tell us more about the origin of planetary systems. 

Understanding the details of giant planet formation, structure, composition and powerful magnetospheric environment required a new perspective close up and over the poles of Jupiter -- an orbit never before attempted. Juno was specifically designed for this challenge, entering into the harshest planetary environment known in the solar system. This volume describes the mission design, scientific strategies and instrument payload that enable Juno to peer deep into Jupiter’s atmosphere and reveal the fundamental process of the formation and early evolution of our solar system. 

In these papers, the Juno instrument teams describe their investigations, which include gravity radio science, microwave radiometers, magnetometers, an infrared imager auroral mapper, an ultraviolet imager and spectrograph, a visible light imager known as JunoCam, low and high energy particle detectors and plasma wave and radio electromagnetic sensors. The articles also describe a radiation monitoring experiment and the extensive laboratory measurements undertaken to assist with the analysis and interpretation of Juno’s pioneering investigation of Jupiter’s deep atmosphere. 

Originally published in Space Science Reviews, Volume 213, Issue 1-4, November 2017