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NO PROBE MISSION SCHEDULED. #Bestof2021: The ice-skating rink of Jupiter beckons a probe: HotelMars: Jupiter's unexplored giant icy moon Ganymede. Planetary Society. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Pl anetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com

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🗓️ 20 August 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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NO PROBE MISSION SCHEDULED. #Bestof2021: The ice-skating rink of Jupiter beckons a probe: HotelMars: Jupiter's unexplored giant icy moon Ganymede. Planetary Society. David Grinspoon @Funkyspoon Pl anetary Society. David Livingston SpaceShow.com


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The possibility of astrobiology for many decades.

0:58.0

And there's always new information coming in which makes planetary science endlessly interesting.

1:04.0

You have all this data that you know in a hundred years there's still going to be processing it.

1:09.0

But it's fresh when you see it.

1:11.0

And what's fresh right now is that Juno, which is the NASA probe of Jupiter, been in orbit,

1:17.0

has now given us pictures of Ganymy, a very large moon.

1:22.0

The distinguishing characteristic of these photographs is that it has cracks in the surface

1:28.0

that look like somebody's been skating over it.

1:31.0

Dr. Grinspoon, what do we make of these cracks?

1:34.0

Have we seen this before?

1:36.0

Well, we've seen it before, but this is a wonderful new close-up look.

1:43.0

I mean, our first decent views of Ganymy, they weren't quite this decent,

1:48.0

but the first time we really saw what the picture was like, goes back to the Voyager mission in 1979,

1:54.0

when Voyager did its flyby through the Jupiter system.

1:59.0

But then in the 90s, we had the Galileo probe, which was a Jupiter orbiter,

2:04.0

which made many passes by Ganymy and got us a lot of great images.

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