DocumentCode
3139744
Title
The Juno microwave experiment
Author
Bolton, S.J.
Author_Institution
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, United States
fYear
2010
fDate
23-28 May 2010
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
This talk provides the scientific background for the NASA New Frontiers Mission, “Juno”. Juno is a solar powered polar orbiter around Jupiter. Juno is scheduled to be launched in August 2011. The goal of the Juno mission is to explore the origin and evolution of the planet Jupiter. Three main experimental objectives, during 32 orbits at the 5000 km perigee of Juno, are: 1) to determine Jupiter´s internal mass distribution by measuring gravity with Doppler tracking, 2) to determine the nature of its internal dynamo by measuring its magnetic fields with a magnetometer, and 3) to determine the deep composition and dynamics of the sub-cloud atmosphere around Jupiter, by measuring its thermal microwave emission. A total of seven instruments will be on-board. The focus of this talk will be on the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) instrument, which will measure the thermal microwave emission at six octave-spaced frequencies ranging from 0.6 to 22 GHz.
Keywords
Atmospheric measurements; Extraterrestrial measurements; Gravity; Instruments; Jupiter; Magnetic field measurement; Microwave measurements; NASA; Orbits; Planets;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2010 IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location
Anaheim, CA
ISSN
0149-645X
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6056-4
Electronic_ISBN
0149-645X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/MWSYM.2010.5517426
Filename
5517426
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