Voyage to Jupiter
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Chapters (127)(click to expand)
- Voyage To Jupiter
- FOREWORD
- INTRODUCTION
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1 THE JOVIAN SYSTEM
- Introduction
- Early Discoveries
- Jupiter Through the Telescope
- Recent Earth-Based Studies of Jupiter
- The Jovian Magnetosphere
- The Jovian Satellites
- 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.
- CHAPTER 3 THE VOYAGER MISSION
- Genesis of Voyager
- Redesign of the Mission
- The Objectives of Voyager
- The Spacecraft
- 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
- CHAPTER 5 THE VOYAGE TO JUPITER—GETTING THERE
- Launch
- The First Year Is the Roughest
- Cruise Phase Science
- The Observatory Phase
- Far Encounter Phase
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CHAPTER 9 FOUR NEW WORLDS
- Jupiter’s Satellite System
- Callisto
- Ganymede
- Europa
- Io
- Energy for the Io Volcanoes
- The Io Torus
- CHAPTER 10 RETURN TO JUPITER
- A Successor to Voyager
- The Scientific Capability of Galileo
- Galileo Mission Design
- Beyond Galileo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ADDITIONAL READING
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- NONTECHNICAL
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