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The rings of Saturn. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The rings of Saturn. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-rings-of-saturn-2/

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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world with Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black Good News.

0:07.9

Juice, fixed.

0:09.7

How so Bob?

0:10.7

What is juice?

0:11.7

Juice is a probe to the large Galilean moons around Jupiter.

0:17.0

It's not going to be there for about, what is it, eight years.

0:19.7

But we took off last year and it has a very large radar antenna.

0:24.9

This radar antenna is not for communications.

0:26.7

For doing studies of the surface of these moons, the IT moons in particular around Jupiter

0:32.3

that have a lot of ice.

0:34.1

And the radar antenna would allow it to probe below the surface as well.

0:38.7

And unfortunately when they deployed the, tried to deploy the 52 foot wide antenna,

0:44.1

it wasn't going, it wasn't deploying.

0:46.6

It appears there was a pin in the way that wasn't, it was blocking release.

0:51.9

So what the engineers did this weekend is they employed what they called back-to-back

0:58.8

jolt.

0:59.8

Think about rolling your car back and forth if it's stuck in snow and that's how you get

1:03.2

it free.

1:04.2

Essentially they were trying to do the same kind of thing and it worked.

1:07.7

And they got free of the pin and they were able to deploy the antenna.

1:11.4

This is really good news.

1:13.2

Today I've linked to a little gift animation showing, not an animation actual video of the

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