Juno spacecraft to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10

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Juno spacecraft to fly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot July 10
July 2, 2017
 
Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm. This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature—a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.

"Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably the best-known feature of Jupiter," said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. "This monumental storm has raged on the solar system's biggest planet for centuries. Now, Juno and her cloud-penetrating science instruments will dive in to see how deep the roots of this storm go, and help us understand how this giant storm works and what makes it so special."


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-07-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-great-red.html#jCp

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[montanajoe]

I think for 99.00% of the population this is pretty boring and useless stuff.

The quest for knowledge regardless of the administration has been the high point of America IMO.

Sadly our once seemingly overwhelming start as a nation continues to be squandered..

[Gefn]

I think for 99.00% of the population this is pretty boring and useless stuff.

The quest for knowledge regardless of the administration has been the high point of America IMO.

Sadly our once seemingly overwhelming start as a nation continues to be squandered..

I know over the holiday weekend when I was talking to my mom and my sister about the upcoming eclipse they couldn't care less, but thanked me for the "neat" eclipse postage stamps.

[Cripplecreek]

I think for 99.00% of the population this is pretty boring and useless stuff.

The quest for knowledge regardless of the administration has been the high point of America IMO.

Sadly our once seemingly overwhelming start as a nation continues to be squandered..

A lot of that is the fault of our government over the years. 30 years of low earth orbit just doesn't capture the imagination the way manned missions beyond earth does. However even the manned moon missions were losing the attention of the American people.

We need to be bolder and yes, entertaining to hold the attention of the population.