{"id":423,"date":"2012-05-08T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:13:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:13:55","slug":"esas-going-to-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/05\/08\/esas-going-to-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA&#8217;s going to Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s next large mission will be JUICE, a probe to study Jupiter&#8217;s icy moons. People who study other areas of astrophysics (like me) are disappointed that ESA didn&#8217;t choose a mission to the stuff we&#8217;re terribly excited about. In particular, some people are <a href=\"http:\/\/fs6.formsite.com\/ATHENA2022\/form1\/index.html\">very disappointed<\/a> that the X-ray observatory ATHENA lost out.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know what should have happened, but <a href=\"http:\/\/wellbredinsolence.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/08\/the-good-things-about-juice\/\">this blog post<\/a> (which I learned about from <a href=\"http:\/\/telescoper.wordpress.com\/\">Peter Coles<\/a>, by the way) does a pretty good job of explaining why JUICE is interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The most striking thing to me is the extremely long time scale. JUICE isn&#8217;t scheduled to get to Jupiter until the 2030s. I know it&#8217;s sometimes necessary to plan way in advance, but it does seem like a big gamble to devote a bunch of resources to something that far off. How certain are we that the questions that seem interesting now will still seem interesting then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency&#8217;s next large mission will be JUICE, a probe to study Jupiter&#8217;s icy moons. People who study other areas of astrophysics (like me) are disappointed that ESA didn&#8217;t choose a mission to the stuff we&#8217;re terribly excited about. In particular, some people are very disappointed that the X-ray observatory ATHENA lost out. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/2012\/05\/08\/esas-going-to-jupiter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ESA&#8217;s going to Jupiter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/physicsbunn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}