B Discussing Juno/JunoCam Mission and Jupiter Data

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The Juno spacecraft is set to arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, completing 31 polar orbits to gather unprecedented data about the planet's composition, magnetic fields, and atmospheric dynamics. The mission aims to measure the amount of water in Jupiter's atmosphere, explore its magnetosphere, and investigate the planet's deep structure, which could reshape our understanding of solar system formation. JunoCam will allow public participation in capturing images of Jupiter, enhancing engagement with the mission. However, there are no plans for Juno to observe Jupiter's moons, which has raised concerns about the missed opportunities for studying bodies like Europa. Overall, the Juno mission is expected to significantly advance our knowledge of Jupiter and its environment.
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Hoophy said:
How exactly does this 'Deep Space Network' determine the position of Juno? Could someone please try to explain this to me?
I guess something like conventional triangulation, (the scopes are located at different positions on Earth).
combined with received flight data from the craft, which knows where it is in relation to planets and their moons.
 
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dragoneyes001 said:
13.6 days then how is it 37 orbits in that total length of time what I was seeing in the orbit simulation was mostly identical orbits with changing angles in relation to the planet i have to have missed something
The first two orbits are "capture orbits" each having a duration of 53.4 days, this is followed by the science orbits with the roughly 14 day duration.
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/ne...t-team-begins-powering-up-science-instruments
 
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1oldman2 said:
The first two orbits are "capture orbits" each having a duration of 53.4 days, this is followed by the science orbits with the roughly 14 day duration.
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/ne...t-team-begins-powering-up-science-instruments

ok thanks I was under the impression the captures were already accounted for before the two year-ish science period
 
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I'm beginning to like the "extended mission" aspect. From http://spaceflight101.com/outline-junos-capture-orbits-around-jupiter/
If everything goes according to plan, Juno will finish the final orbit of the primary mission with perijove on
February 6, 2018. The primary mission is expected to end with a destructive entry into the Jovian atmosphere
on February 20, a date that previously seemed to be set in stone as an extended mission was ruled out for
planetary protection reasons. Newer information shared by the mission team indicates that a mission extension
is at least on the table, pending Juno’s performance in Jupiter’s extreme radiation environment.
 
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While reading up on the orbital aspect of the mission I came across the mention early in the planning stages of the possible use of orbital tethers, while I can see the polar orbit may not be optimum for power generation, I'm wondering if the tether system might be used for deorbiting the craft at the end of the mission. If anyone comes across info regarding Juno and tethers could they please mention it in a post, I'm not finding anything in the current writings concerning this.
http://www.tethers.com/TT.html?gclid=CODTk-rD6c0CFQ6GaQodSaUNwQ#TermTether
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117709007546
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2011JA016951/full https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258496579_Tether_radiation_in_Juno-type_and_circular-equatorial_Jovian_orbits http://oa.upm.es/23242/1/A90L.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011JGRA..11612226S
http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/44421/1/13-3066_A1b.pdf

Also here is an interesting article on the orbital gymnastics of deep space maneuvers. http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/45612/1/14-2698_A1b.pdf Not much going on aside from an orbital clean up maneuver on the 13th and instrument check out, however I'll post anything new that's of interest.
I would like to thank D H and dotini for the technical info they posted, you guys have much better sources than myself so it's much appreciated. :smile:
 
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From https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno_sends_first_in-orbit_view
pia20707_figa.jpg
 
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Clever Penguin said:
I haven't noticed any Juno experiment designed to look for dark matter.
Same here, I don't even know how one would detect it, just thought I'd mention the theory.
 
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Some pages on spacecraft navigation:

The Navigators: How We Fly Spacecraft Around the Solar System - Universe Today
How do space probes navigate large distances with such accuracy and how do the mission controllers know when they've reached their target? - Scientific American
Basics of Space Flight Section II. Space Flight Projects
Spacecraft Navigation

There are several sorts of data that spacecraft navigators use.
  • Pictures of the spacecraft . That's mainly useful in low Earth orbit. It gives the spacecraft 's direction relative to the stars from the observation site.
  • Radio ranging. A round trip of a signal gives the spacecraft 's distance.
  • Radio range rate. Doppler shift of the signal frequency gives the spacecraft 's radial velocity.
  • Radio ranging with receivers in different positions, like on different continents. The relative arrival times and radial velocities can be combined to find the spacecraft 's direction.
  • Optical navigation. The spacecraft takes an overexposed picture of a nearby celestial body, the overexposure being for seeing stars in nearby directions. This gives the body's direction, and if the body was resolved, its distance.
They then compare their data with their calculated positions and velocities for the spacecraft , and improve their calculations with it.

For doing the calculations, they typically do numerical integration, though analytic approximations are often good starting points. Approximations like the Newtonian two-body problem. For going from the Earth to Mars, one starts with geocentric calculations, then switches to heliocentric calculations for most of the trip, then switches to areocentric calculations at Mars.

They have to take into account not only celestial bodies' gravity, but also the pressure of sunlight and the solar wind. But they have gotten very good at that, and they also maintain very precise ephemerides, tables of the celestial bodies' positions. One can use spacecraft navigation data as inputs for those also.
 
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One can get not only planets' masses with spacecraft , but also planets' departures from sphericity. Planets' equatorial bulges pull on spacecraft , and this causes their orbits to precess. How much precession gives how much material is in the bulge, and that in turn gives clues as to the planets' internal structures. One can get more fine-grained gravity data in this way, data that revealed the presence of mass concentrations or "mascons" in the Moon.

However, such gravity data is essentially 2D and not 3D, so it has limits.

A planet's gravitational field can be given by a multipole expansion, where one finds the expansion's coefficients. One then finds those coefficient values from how the planet fields affect spacecraft orbits.

V = - \frac{GM}{r} \left( 1 - \sum_{l=2}^\infty J_l \left( \frac{R}{r} \right)^l P_l(\hat r \cdot n) \right)

for mass M, equatorial radius R, spin-axis direction n, and Legendre polynomials P. There are additional terms with variation in the azimuthal coordinate.

One of the purposes of the Juno mission is to try to get improved values of Jupiter's gravity's multipole coefficients. These values can then be compared to the results of internal-structure calculations.
 
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Awesome posts ! :thumbup::thumbup:Thanks.


 
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like the first pic from juno just one question being out in space without any light wouldn't the star field be super visible in the background?
 
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dragoneyes001 said:
like the first pic from juno just one question being out in space without any light wouldn't the star field be super visible in the background?
From my experience of the Dawn mission photographing Ceres, my guess is no.
The only time I remember seeing stars was from a composite image.

Good question though.
I asked the same thing last year about Ceres, and got the following response:

June 4, 2015
Marc Rayman, director and chief engineer for NASA's Dawn mission; "... For the approach phase images, we used two different camera integration times (what most people call exposure times). One value was chosen to ensure Ceres was correctly exposed and the other was chosen to bring out the background stars. The images alternate, so we interpolate to get Ceres' location relative to stars. ..."​

[ref: PF]

Ah ha! Just found the explanation of the image I was referring to.

But, I'm afraid I'm not much of an astronomer, so I don't quite understand how "apparent magnitude" works.
Does Jupiter get brighter as you get closer?

Anyways, here's a list of the "apparent magnitude" of Jupiter and the 4 brightest stars:

Jupiter at brightest: -2.7
Sirius: -1.46
Canopus: -0.72
Rigil Kentaurus: -0.27
Arcturus: -0.04​

My guess is, that Sirius would probably show up, if the camera were pointed in the right direction.
 
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OmCheeto said:
From my experience of the Dawn mission photographing Ceres, my guess is no.
The only time I remember seeing stars was from a composite image.

Good question though.
I asked the same thing last year about Ceres, and got the following response:

June 4, 2015
Marc Rayman, director and chief engineer for NASA's Dawn mission; "... For the approach phase images, we used two different camera integration times (what most people call exposure times). One value was chosen to ensure Ceres was correctly exposed and the other was chosen to bring out the background stars. The images alternate, so we interpolate to get Ceres' location relative to stars. ..."​

[ref: PF]

Ah ha! Just found the explanation of the image I was referring to.

But, I'm afraid I'm not much of an astronomer, so I don't quite understand how "apparent magnitude" works.
Does Jupiter get brighter as you get closer?

Anyways, here's a list of the "apparent magnitude" of Jupiter and the 4 brightest stars:

Jupiter at brightest: -2.7
Sirius: -1.46
Canopus: -0.72
Rigil Kentaurus: -0.27
Arcturus: -0.04​

My guess is, that Sirius would probably show up, if the camera were pointed in the right direction.

thanks
 
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OmCheeto said:
From my experience of the Dawn mission photographing Ceres, my guess is no.
The only time I remember seeing stars was from a composite image.
Hi Om, Marc pretty well described what's going on in the paragraph quoted from your link,
"Ceres is the bright spot in the center of the image. Because the dwarf
planet is much brighter than the stars in the background, the camera team
selected a long exposure time to make the stars visible. The long exposure
made Ceres appear overexposed, and exaggerated its size; this was
corrected by superimposing a shorter exposure of the dwarf planet in the
center of the image."
The brightness of background objects (stars etc. is relative to the object being targeted as far as "brightness", kind of like how Occator glowed so brightly in the earliest images. It's also why in the feed from the ISS no stars are visible.
 
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OmCheeto said:
But, I'm afraid I'm not much of an astronomer, so I don't quite understand how "apparent magnitude" works.
Does Jupiter get brighter as you get closer?
Yes, it does. That's the reason for using apparent magnitude as opposed to absolute magnitude. Absolute magnitude does not change with distance. Apparent magnitude does change with distance, in an inverse square manner.
 
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Finally ! Juno's about to go inbound for a practice run with the science payload operating, :woot:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/five-years-post-launch-juno-is-at-a-turning-point
Juno's science instruments were turned off during orbit insertion, to simplify spacecraft
operations during that critical maneuver. In contrast, all the instruments will be collecting data
during the Aug. 27 pass, which serves as a trial run before the mission gets to work collecting
the precious data it came for.
 
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1oldman2 said:
Finally ! Juno's about to go inbound for a practice run with the science payload operating, :woot:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/five-years-post-launch-juno-is-at-a-turning-point
Juno's science instruments were turned off during orbit insertion, to simplify spacecraft
operations during that critical maneuver. In contrast, all the instruments will be collecting data
during the Aug. 27 pass, which serves as a trial run before the mission gets to work collecting
the precious data it came for.

I can't wait. I hope it takes the scenic route...
 
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Clever Penguin said:
I hope it takes the scenic route...
The route is guaranteed "scenic" (and the science is going to be super)... just a thought, super science sounds like something on a McDonald's menu, probably not the dollar menu either. :cool:
 
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Oh yes the Science does indeed promise to be super-sized. Juno will hit ~260,000 kph (yes, 4 zeroes) fastest unmanned human made object ever and already there is apparently some evidence supporting the hypothesis that "some sort of sonic event" from the insane turbulence below (think mega thunder!) as a contributing factor to higher than accounted for temps in upper atmosphere.

Someone said they would be disappointed if Juno didn't gather moon data but I am pleased this is a very singularly focused mission. Lots of answers and new questions about how our Solar System and others with gas giants, formed. Just terribly exciting stuff!
 
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New imaging data dump from juno here.
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=40
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

Every year there is a period of time that Jupiter is too close to the sun for earth-based astronomers to
observe. This year that time co-incides with Juno’s initial large orbits of Jupiter. Ordinarily we would not
take images with JunoCam during this time however in the absence of our amateur ground-based
support we are collecting RGB images 4 times per hour. We call this the "marble movie" because Jupiter
is so small in the image. We have enough resolution to see if something major happens, like the
disappearance of the Great Red Spot, or the fading of the South Equatorial Belt. We are also imaging
Jupiter through our methane filter.
 
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Closest pass to Jupiter during the entire mission coming up, It seems likely a portion of the data will be useful modeling the formation and life of exo-planets such as Proxima B, as well as solar system dynamics in general.
From, http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-to-soar-closest-to-jupiter-this-saturday

This Saturday at 5:51 a.m. PDT, (8:51 a.m. EDT, 12:51 UTC) NASA's Juno spacecraft will get
closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter than at any other time during its prime mission. At the
moment of closest approach, Juno will be about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's
swirling clouds and traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000 kilometers per hour) with respect to the
planet. There are 35 more close flybys of Jupiter scheduled during its prime mission (scheduled
to end in February of 2018). The Aug. 27 flyby will be the first time Juno will have its entire suite
of science instruments activated and looking at the giant planet as the spacecraft zooms past.

While the science data from the pass should be downlinked to Earth within days, interpretation
and first results are not expected for some time.

"No other spacecraft has ever orbited Jupiter this closely, or over the poles in this fashion," said
Steve Levin, Juno project scientist from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
California. "This is our first opportunity and there are bound to be surprises. We need to take
our time to make sure our conclusions are correct."

Not only will Juno's suite of eight science instruments be on, the spacecraft 's visible light imager
-- JunoCam will also be snapping some closeups. A handful of JunoCam images, including the
highest resolution imagery of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter's north and
south poles, are expected to be released during the later part of next week.

PIA20884.jpg

This dual view of Jupiter was taken on August 23, when NASA's Juno
spacecraft was 2.8 million miles (4.4 million kilometers) from the gas giant
planet on the inbound leg of its initial 53.5-day capture orbit. :smile:
 
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http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-successfully-completes-jupiter-flyby

From, http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2016/08271754-junos-first-jupiter-close.html
NASA announced this afternoon that Juno passed through its first perijove since entering orbit successfully, with science
instruments operating all the way. This is a huge relief, given all the unknowns about the effects of Jupiter's nasty
radiation environment on its brand-new orbiter.

NASA's Juno mission successfully executed its first of 36 orbital flybys of Jupiter today. The time of closest
approach with the gas-giant world was 6:44 a.m. PDT (9:44 a.m. EDT, 13:44 UTC) when Juno passed about 2,600
miles (4,200 kilometers) above Jupiter's swirling clouds. At the time, Juno was traveling at 130,000 mph (208,000
kilometers per hour) with respect to the planet. This flyby was the closest Juno will get to Jupiter during its primemission.

While results from the spacecraft 's suite of instruments will be released down the road, a handful of images from
Juno's visible light imager -- JunoCam -- are expected to be released the next couple of weeks. Those images will
include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter's north and south
poles.

20160828_August271.png
 
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Thanks 1oldman2. Nice update. I wonder what all the secrecy is about?
 
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enorbet said:
Thanks 1oldman2. Nice update. I wonder what all the secrecy is about?
It's not so much about secrecy as it is about transmission time.

Imagine you are standing next to someone: you can tell them your thoughts pretty quickly; but the Juno probe is not right next to us, so that situation doesn't quite apply. Now imagine that the person to whom you are talking to is a block away. You could shout really loudly, but there are limits to how loud you can shout.

There is another approach: you could shout slowly. The listener can then integrate over time. Assuming all the noise around the listener is random, it allows your shout to rise above the noise around the listener if your shouting is slow enough.

Beyond that, if you add some redundancy to your shouts, adding repetition/redundancy in a pre-agreed upon manner ("repeating" things in an a priori fashion), it allows the listener to detect and correct communication errors that might happen during the transmission.

Simply put, in a power limited system (such as a probe far from Earth), communication takes a while.
 
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At the time of Juno's capture orbit (7/5/16) the distance was 48 light minutes. There is processing time involved and of course important discoveries will likely have an embargo placed on them while the review/publication process takes place. As you can see the image I posted (taken at a distance of 703,000 km) was processed and released quickly, the good stuff, from as close as 4,200 km will be released within a couple of weeks. once the science mission gets fully established ( early November) the data should be released without the delay (at least within days rather than weeks). According to JPL this pass was intended as a trial phase to check out instrumentation. Patience, there's plenty of "good stuff" to come. :wink:
 
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Thanks guys but I was only commenting on remarks made in the linked planetary.org blog that made a comparison to similar flights and concluding "secrecy" specific to Juno. The site has been generally reputable so I wonder about that writer as well as the conclusion.

Also having studied this shot for some time I am very prepared with patience as I'm sure enough focused data will be retrieved for at least 5 years of study.
 
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enorbet said:
Thanks guys but I was only commenting on remarks made in the linked planetary.org blog that made a comparison to similar flights and concluding "secrecy" specific to Juno. The site has been generally reputable so I wonder about that writer as well as the conclusion.
I caught the gist of your comment in regards to the "secrecy" and the site mentioned does have very good coverage of the mission.
"I don't know what other images have been planned, because the mission has inexplicably chosen not to share
information with the public about those plans. This is really weird, because Cassini and New Horizons were both very
open about their plans for imaging with their science cameras. Juno's JunoCam is an instrument intended specifically for
public outreach, and yet they're keeping information about it close to the vest. Apart from the types of imaging mentioned
in the press release, there has been discussion of attempting 3D imaging of clouds by taking images closely spaced in
time as the spacecraft passes from north to south. There was also an opportunity to image Ganymede yesterday. We'll
have to wait and see!"
Any way one looks at it this mission has great potential and I can't wait to see it evolve. :smile:
 
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Regarding the communication link, and for a bit more explanation as to why it can take a while, here's something from the wiki:

"Due to telecommunications constraints, Juno will only be able to return about 40 megabytes of camera data during each 11-day orbital period. This photography downlink average data rate of less than 337 bit/s will limit the number of images that are captured and transmitted during each orbit to somewhere between 10 and 100 depending on the compression level used."​
(link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_( spacecraft )#Telecommunications)

which references this source:

http://planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2011/3133.html
 
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collinsmark said:
Regarding the communication link, and for a bit more explanation as to why it can take a while,
Interesting reading! thanks for posting that info, :thumbup: I'm curious about how much data (imaging) will make it back to Earth, considering the Hi-Def nature of the cam the downlink seems like one heck of a bottleneck.
 
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40MB? In eleven days? Wow! How did I miss that? That is such a terrible constraint and I didn't even realize it existed these days. Thank you for the links. I can't help but wonder why such important exploration, particularly now when understanding planetary weather can be so... so... urgent! how NASA got such a "back seat". I suppose Crisis Management still rules most people. Foresight requires actual critical, abstract thinking. ; )
 
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Can't wait for the pics. Waiting for Pluto's high resolution imagery was hard but worthwhile.
 
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What's new from the Juno mission?
 
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Clever Penguin said:
What's new from the Juno mission?
Just waiting on data release, should be something soon.
 
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Orbit insertion and the first of the planned close fly-bys worked perfectly and was largely an exercise in calibrating instruments.
There will be have been useful data collected as well, although it'll take a while for all of it to be downloaded.
36 orbits are planned in total, ending in early 2018.
That could be extended as is frequently the case with probes that successfully complete their primary mission and are still functional..
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-successfully-completes-jupiter-flyby
 
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Borg said:
How about this?
Yup, that's the stuff. :smile:





http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system

NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north
pole, taken during the spacecraft 's first flyby of the planet with its instruments
switched on. The images show storm systems and weather activity unlike
anything previously seen on any of our solar system's gas-giant planets.

First glimpse of Jupiter’s north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen
or imagined before," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "It’s bluer in color up there than
other parts of the planet, and there are a lot of storms. There is no sign
of the latitudinal bands or zone and belts that we are used to - this image is
hardly recognizable as Jupiter. We’re seeing signs that the clouds have shadows,
possibly indicating that the clouds are at a higher altitude than other features."
 
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Beautiful pictures!
 
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# Written by David Sims in Python 3.4.3, released to the public domain.
# Download Python 3.4.3 from https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-343/
# This program is a modification of ephem, intended to track the Juno spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter.
import math
AU = 1.495978707e11
pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795
dr = pi/180.0
GM = 1.26686534e17
toi = 2457627.9966
# Update Juno's orbital elements relative to Jupiter Body Center (500@599)
# from JPL Horizons (http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi)
# sma = semimajor axis, AU
sma = 0.02740009798134841
# ecc = eccentricity
ecc = 0.9816687162279770
# tpp = time of perjove passage, Julian date
tpp = 2457628.036427238025
sma = sma*AU
# The results will be vectors in the orbit's canonical coordinate system.
# There will be no conversion to ecliptic coordinates.
P = (pi/43200)*math.sqrt(sma**3/GM)
m0 = (toi-tpp)/P
m = 2*pi*(m0-int(m0))
u = m + (ecc-ecc**3/8+ecc**5/192)*math.sin(m)
u = u + (ecc*ecc/2-ecc**4/6)*math.sin(2*m)
u = u + (3*ecc**3/8-27*ecc**5/128)*math.sin(3*m)
u = u + (ecc**4/3)*math.sin(4*m)
U = 999.9
# Replace the four underscores with four spaces, where necessary.
while abs(u-U)>1.0e-14:
____U = u
____F0 = U-ecc*math.sin(U)-m
____F1 = 1-ecc*math.cos(U)
____F2 = ecc*math.sin(U)
____F3 = ecc*math.cos(U)
____D1 = -F0/F1
____D2 = -F0/(F1+D1*F2/2)
____D3 = -F0/(F1+D1*F2/2+D2*D2*F3/6)
____u = U+D3
if u<0:
____u = u+2*pi
x = sma*(math.cos(u)-ecc)
y = sma*math.sin(u)*math.sqrt(1-ecc*ecc)
r = math.sqrt(x*x+y*y)
q = math.atan(y/x)
if x<0:
____q=q+pi
if x>0 and y<0:
____q=q+2.0*pi
k = math.sqrt(GM/(sma*(1-ecc*ecc)))
Vx = -k*math.sin(q)
Vy = k*(ecc+math.cos(q))
V = math.sqrt(Vx*Vx+Vy*Vy)
print('toi {:15.7f}'.format(toi),'JD')
print('x {:15.3f}'.format(x),'meters')
print('y {:15.3f}'.format(y),'meters')
print('r {:15.3f}'.format(r),'meters')
print('Vx {:15.9f}'.format(Vx),'m/s')
print('Vy {:15.9f}'.format(Vy),'m/s')
print('V {:15.9f}'.format(V),'m/s')
print('T.A. {:15.11f}'.format(q/dr),'degrees')
print('E.A. {:15.11f}'.format(u/dr),'degrees')
print('P {:15.11f}'.format(P),'days')
keypress = input('Press return to exit program.')
 
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I'll use the equations coded in the program to find the position of Juno in its orbit around Jupiter at noon on 5 September 2016.

First, let's convert the calendar date into a Julian date.

year = 2016
month = 9
day = 5
hour = 12.0

A = integer[(M−4)/12]
B = integer{[1461(Y+4800+A)]/4}
C = integer{[367(M−2−12A)]/12}
D = integer[(Y+4900+A)/100]
E = integer(3D/4)
t = B + C − E − 32075.5 + day + hour/24

A = 0
B = 2489544
C = 214
D = 69
E = 51
t = 2457637.0 (Julian date)

In the program this t would be the time-of-interest variable, toi. Next, we get updated orbital elements for Juno relative to Jupiter from JPL.

semimajor axis
a = 0.02727221357504968 AU = 4.07986508e+9 meters

eccentricity
e = 0.9815748160068685

time of perijove passage
T = 2457628.034514271654

The period of Juno's orbit around Jupiter (in days).

GM = 1.266694832e+17 m³ sec⁻²
P = (π/43200) √[a³/(GM)]
P = 53.2475 days

Mean anomaly of Juno at time of interest, t.

m' = (t−T)/P
m = 2π [m' − integer(m')]
m = 1.057924 radians

Initial approximation for the eccentric anomaly at time t.

u₀ = m
+ (e − e³/8 + e⁵/192) sin(m)
+ (e²/2 − e⁴/6) sin(2m)
+ (3e³/8 − 27e⁵/128) sin(3m)
+ (e⁴/3) sin(4m)

u₀ = 1.057924 + 0.756412 + 0.279640 − 0.005226 − 0.274370
u₀ = 1.814380 radians

i = 0

Repeat...

i = i+1
F₀ = uᵢ−e sin(uᵢ)−m
F₁ = 1−e cos(uᵢ)
F₂ = e sin(uᵢ)
F₃ = e cos(uᵢ)
D₁ = −F₀ / F₁
D₂ = −F₀ / (F₁ + ½ D₁F₂)
D₃ = −F₀ / (F₁ + ½ D₁F₂ + ⅙ D₂²F₃)
uᵢ₊₁ = uᵢ+D₃

...Until |uᵢ₊₁−uᵢ| < 1e-12

Eccentric anomaly at time t.

u = uᵢ₊₁
u = 1.964430 radians

Canonical position vector from Jupiter's center at time t.

x = a [cos(u)−e]
y = a sin(u) √(1−e²)

x = −5.569513e+9 meters
y = +7.199526e+8 meters

Distance from Jupiter at time t.

r = √(x²+y²)
r = 5.615853e+9 meters

True anomaly at time t.

θ = arctan( y , x )
θ = 3.013039 radians

Canonical velocity vector from Jupiter's center at time t.

Vx = −√{GM/[a(1−e²)]} sin θ
Vy = +√{GM/[a(1−e²)]} (e+cos θ)

Vx = −3738.4 m/s
Vy = −296.7 m/s

Speed relative to Jupiter's center at time t.

V = √(Vx²+Vy²)
V = 3750.2 m/s
 
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I just noticed that I have the i=i+1 in the wrong place. I should have paid more attention when I replaced the while loop with the repeat-until loop.
 
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PIA21033_hires.jpg

This infrared image from Juno provides an unprecedented view of Jupiter's southern aurora. Such views are not possible from Earth.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA21033

'"While we knew that the flyby of Jupiter's south pole might reveal the planet's southern aurora, we were still amazed to see it for the first time," says Alberto Adriani from the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali in Rome. Adriani is a co-investigator on the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM), the instrument that took the picture.

Unlike Earth, which lights up in response to solar activity, Jupiter makes its own auroras. The power source is the giant planet's own rotation. Although Jupiter is ten times wider than Earth, it manages to spin around 2.5 times as fast as our little planet. As any freshman engineering student knows, if you spin a magnet you've got an electric generator. And Jupiter is a very big magnet. Induced electric fields accelerate particles toward Jupiter's poles where the aurora action takes place. Remarkably, many of the particles that rain down on Jupiter's poles appear to be ejecta from volcanoes on Io. How this complicated system actually works is a puzzle.'
- from today's edition of spaceweather.com
 
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Yumy. Was hoping to see closer pics of the surface, though. Maybe it didn't orbit around the sun-lit side.
 
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rollete said:
Yumy. Was hoping to see closer pics of the surface, though. Maybe it didn't orbit around the sun-lit side.
I'm still hoping for a little more from this pass, although it was basically a calibration/test run I'm sure they have a lot of unreleased data. I'm also curious about what the other science instruments have sent back.
 
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