[AZ-Observing] Re: Latest Jupiter Probe is on its Way
- From: Jack Jones <telescoper@xxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:22:56 -0700
OK I give, what's a Sparkie? I even went to sparkies.com and all it
talked about was "quantum psychics"(sic).
Jack
Rick SCOTT wrote:
> PASADENA – The Juvenile Punk Laboratory (JPL) announced the latest
> spacecraft that is on its way to Jupiter. The $500 billion spacecraft,
> the latest generation of deep-space probes to study the planets of the
> outer solar system, is the Jupiter Orbiting Kinetic Energy Reporter
> (JOKER). It main purpose is to determine the kinetic energy response of
> Jupiter to external stimulus.
>
> The main instrument aboard the JOKER, the Trans-Resonance Isotropic
> Carrier Kinetic Sensor (TRICKS), uses the Galileo Orbiting Topography
> Checking Algorithm (GOTCHA) software. Other instruments aboard the
> spacecraft are the Back-scatter Ozone Observatory (BOZO), Ca-Line
> Occultation with Neutrons Sensor (CLOWNS), and Lower Atmosphere Uranium
> Gas Hyper-Energy Tomography Radiometer (LAUGHTER).
>
> This five year mission is operated by the Gearhead Space Flight Center,
> a subsidiary of the Nerds and Sparkies Administration (NASA).
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