• 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