On 4/7/2022 4:55 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> taustinca@gmail.com wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 4/1/2022 4:10 PM, Steve Dodds wrote:
>>>> On Friday, April 1, 2022 at 3:24:02 PM UTC-6, Wolffan wrote:
>>>>> On 01 Apr 2022, Steve Dodds wrote:
>
>>>>>> So I'm watching Picard episode 4 or 5, they have time
>>>>>> traveled to 2024 and one of Picard's ancestors is in NASA
>>>>>> preparing for a trip to Europa, really Europa in 2024! Then
>>>>>> they mention she finds an organism on IO, thought it was
>>>>>> Europa.
>>>>>> Does nobody connected to this show understand science
>>>>>> fiction? Does nobody connected with this show understand
>>>>>> current events?
>>>>>
>>>>> Star Dreck Pick-a-card started out silly; I didn't get all the
>>>>> way through the first episode of the first season. I am not at
>>>>> all surprised that it's getting worse.
>>>>
>>>> NASA is launching a "Europa Clipper" spacecraft to go to Europa
>>>> in October 2024, but it of course won't be a manned mission. I
>>>> haven't seen this Picard episode, but perhaps you were getting
>>>> confused about her actually physically going there.
>>>> <https://europa.nasa.gov/mission/about/>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not confused, it's definitely a manned mission, the
>>>> astronaut Picard's great-niece, is being put into quarantine to
>>>> be launched the next day, in 2024. And as to visiting IO is
>>>> NASA really going to plan 2 landings? And what about all the
>>>> radiation?
>>>
>>> Actually all the radiation would be why they would want to do
>>> two landings. Get the most out of the ship before its
>>> electronics become fried beyond operability.
>>
>> Galileo orbited Jupiter for seven years. It was still functional
>> enough at the end of that time to deliberately de-orbit into
>> Jupiter. And that was nearly 30 years ago.
>
> Wasn't the Galileo orbitting far enough from Jupiter to make radiation
> not a problem? I remember it was an issue for Casini, but it was making
> close orbits to Jupiter.
>
Cassini was exploring Saturn.

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On 4/8/2022 4:43 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> In article <t2musq$4sg$3@dont-email.me>, dtravel@sonic.net wrote:
>> On 4/7/2022 4:55 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> taustinca@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 4/1/2022 4:10 PM, Steve Dodds wrote:
>>>>>> On Friday, April 1, 2022 at 3:24:02 PM UTC-6, Wolffan wrote:
>>>>>>> On 01 Apr 2022, Steve Dodds wrote:
>
>>>>>>>> So I'm watching Picard episode 4 or 5, they have time
>>>>>>>> traveled to 2024 and one of Picard's ancestors is in NASA
>>>>>>>> preparing for a trip to Europa, really Europa in 2024! Then
>>>>>>>> they mention she finds an organism on IO, thought it was
>>>>>>>> Europa.
>>>>>>>> Does nobody connected to this show understand science
>>>>>>>> fiction? Does nobody connected with this show understand
>>>>>>>> current events?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Star Dreck Pick-a-card started out silly; I didn't get all the
>>>>>>> way through the first episode of the first season. I am not at
>>>>>>> all surprised that it's getting worse.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> NASA is launching a "Europa Clipper" spacecraft to go to Europa
>>>>>> in October 2024, but it of course won't be a manned mission. I
>>>>>> haven't seen this Picard episode, but perhaps you were getting
>>>>>> confused about her actually physically going there.
>>>>>> <https://europa.nasa.gov/mission/about/>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not confused, it's definitely a manned mission, the
>>>>>> astronaut Picard's great-niece, is being put into quarantine to
>>>>>> be launched the next day, in 2024. And as to visiting IO is
>>>>>> NASA really going to plan 2 landings? And what about all the
>>>>>> radiation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually all the radiation would be why they would want to do
>>>>> two landings. Get the most out of the ship before its
>>>>> electronics become fried beyond operability.
>>>>
>>>> Galileo orbited Jupiter for seven years. It was still functional
>>>> enough at the end of that time to deliberately de-orbit into
>>>> Jupiter. And that was nearly 30 years ago.
>>>
>>> Wasn't the Galileo orbitting far enough from Jupiter to make radiation
>>> not a problem? I remember it was an issue for Casini, but it was making
>>> close orbits to Jupiter.
>>
>> Cassini was exploring Saturn.
>
> Dooh! I meant Juno.
>
""Juno is basically an armored tank going to Jupiter," said Scott
Bolton, Juno's principal investigator, based at Southwest Research
Institute in San Antonio. "Without its protective shield, or radiation
vault, Juno's brain would get fried on the very first pass near Jupiter.""

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/news/juno20100712.html

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