Voyage To Jupiter

About this eBook

Author

Samz, Jane

Title

Voyage to Jupiter

Credits

Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QB: Science: Astronomy

Subject

Jupiter (Planet) -- Photographs from space

Category

Text

eBook-No.

58915

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58915

Release Date

February 19, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Voyage To Jupiter
2. 2.FOREWORD
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
5. 5.CONTENTS
6. 6.CHAPTER 1 THE JOVIAN SYSTEM — Introduction — Early Discoveries — Jupiter Through the Telescope — Recent Earth-Based Studies of Jupiter — The Jovian Magnetosphere — The Jovian Satellites
7. 7.CHAPTER 2 PIONEERS TO JUPITER — Reaching for the Outer Planets — The Pioneer Jupiter Mission — Flight to Jupiter — Jupiter Results — Photographs of Jupiter. — Thermal Emission. — Helium in the Atmosphere. — PIONEER SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS Project Scientist: J. H. Wolfe, NASA Ames — Atmospheric Structure. — Internal Structure. — Magnetic Field. — Satellite Atmospheres. — Masses of Jupiter and Its Satellites. — The Inner Magnetosphere. — The Outer Magnetosphere.
8. 8.CHAPTER 3 THE VOYAGER MISSION — Genesis of Voyager — Redesign of the Mission — The Objectives of Voyager — The Spacecraft
9. 9.CHAPTER 4 SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS — Introduction — Direct and Remote Measurements — Imaging — Infrared Spectrometer — Ultraviolet Spectrometer — Photopolarimeter — Planetary Radio Astronomy — Magnetometer — Plasma Particles — Plasma Waves — Low Energy Charged Particles — Cosmic Rays — Radio Science
10. 10.CHAPTER 5 THE VOYAGE TO JUPITER—GETTING THERE — Launch — The First Year Is the Roughest — Cruise Phase Science — The Observatory Phase — Far Encounter Phase
11. 11.CHAPTER 6 THE FIRST ENCOUNTER — The Giant Is Full of Surprises — Thursday, February 22. — Tuesday, February 27. — Wednesday, February 28. — Thursday, March 1. — Friday, March 2. — Saturday, March 3. — Sunday, March 4. — Monday, March 5. — Tuesday, March 6. — Wednesday, March 7. — Thursday, March 8. — Fire and Brimstone
12. 12.CHAPTER 7 THE SECOND ENCOUNTER: MORE SURPRISES FROM THE “LAND” OF THE GIANT — Approaching Jupiter — The Encounter — Wednesday, July 4. — Thursday, July 5. — Friday, July 6. — Saturday, July 7. — Sunday, July 8. — Monday, July 9. — Tuesday, July 10. — Wednesday, July 11. — A New Satellite
13. 13.CHAPTER 8 JUPITER—KING OF THE PLANETS — A Star That Failed — Composition and Atmospheric Structure — Weather on Jupiter — Order out of Chaos — Lights in the Night Sky — Magnetic Field — The Magnetosphere — Rings of Jupiter
14. 14.CHAPTER 9 FOUR NEW WORLDS — Jupiter’s Satellite System — Callisto — Ganymede — Europa — Io — Energy for the Io Volcanoes — The Io Torus
15. 15.CHAPTER 10 RETURN TO JUPITER — A Successor to Voyager — The Scientific Capability of Galileo — Galileo Mission Design — Beyond Galileo
16. 16.APPENDIX A PICTORIAL MAPS OF THE GALILEAN SATELLITES — Preliminary Pictorial Map of Callisto — Preliminary Pictorial Map of Ganymede — Preliminary Pictorial Map of Europa — Preliminary Pictorial Map of Io
17. 17.APPENDIX B VOYAGER SCIENCE TEAMS — Imaging Science — Radio Science — Plasma Wave — Infrared Spectroscopy and Radiometry — Ultraviolet Spectroscopy — Photopolarimetry — Planetary Radio Astronomy — Magnetic Fields — Plasma Science — Low-Energy Charged Particles — Cosmic Ray
18. 18.APPENDIX C VOYAGER MANAGEMENT TEAM — NASA Office of Space Science — NASA Office of Space Tracking and Data Systems — NASA Office of Space Transportation Systems — Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California — California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
19. 19.ADDITIONAL READING — TECHNICAL — NONTECHNICAL
20. 20.Transcriber’s Notes

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