Look for lots of corporations to move there. The longer year means higher annual earnings.
NASA refutes all GOP bullshit about government, science, and the romance of a nostalgic past.
Once the GOP convinced people that Jesus rode a T Rex, the rest was easy.
What a great achievement this is! Let’s put politics aside for a minute or two and reflect on how fantastic this is.
Awesome!
From the beginning of time mankind looked up at the skies and wondered and dreamed.
And the voyage of discovery continues …
The fifth rock from the sun and the heftiest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant — a ball of hydrogen and helium — unlike rocky Earth and Mars.
Best AP science story line since “Well-known chemical elements include carbon, silicon and iron.”
“Juno meets its demise in 2018 when it deliberately dives into Jupiter’s atmosphere and disintegrates — a necessary sacrifice to prevent any chance of accidentally crashing into the planet’s potentially habitable moons.”
So, are they trying to protect one of our potential escape options from early onset human waste syndrome?
Agree. In my growing up years of the 40’ and early 50’s, this not even possible in my mind, even after John Glen’s first in space. Going to external planets, complicated. An awesome growth of technology since I was an engineer in the late 50’s on. All for the better.
We don’t have any escape options. The scale of manufacturing and technology we’d need to be able to set up a self-sufficient human habitat is still a long way off.
What a shame. All that money could have could have went to corporate welfare. Think of all quid pro quo pay offs your senators and congressman missed out on. (snark)
I understand. My comment was intended as snark. I find it odd we would be concerned with crashing a spacecraft into such a distant object when we have no problem trashing our own planet.
We’re concerned with crashing a spacecraft into one of the Jovian moons because we want to study them, and we don’t want our data contaminated. Is a given feature or result a natural occurrence, or did we not account for a debris field from our probes?
If we find a debris field of obviously artificial origin, do we freak out about it, or is it just our own trash?
Better to just toss the trash in the incinerator that is Jupiter’s atmosphere at high speed.