On Juno's 34th Dip -- Bending Gracefully Around Jupiter... It Swooped Past Ganymede, And Caught A Convert to Audio Stream...

It is hard to imagine that it was over five and a half years ago (on July 4, 2016) that we watched the white knuckle orbital insertion maneuver. And even harder to imagine, that she has been traversing the silent blackness of space for over a decade, now. But this is the "unwasted grace" of Orbit 34, indeed. And still flying flawlessly, as a twisty copper-clad goddess might.

Here's the latest:

. . .Detailed analysis and modeling of the Waves data are ongoing. “It is possible the change in the frequency shortly after closest approach is due to passing from the nightside to the dayside of Ganymede,” said William Kurth of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, lead co-investigator for the Waves investigation.

At the time of Juno’s closest approach to Ganymede – during the mission’s 34th trip around Jupiter – the spacecraft was within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of the moon’s surface and traveling at a relative velocity of 41,600 mph (67,000 kph). . . .

Here is the converted-to-audio file, as a YouTube media stream:



Now you know -- with my own (perhaps a night-side, to day-side transition?) "net ambient temperature difference" approaching 70 degrees, here -- I am grinning ear to ear here (from windchills around zero, to plus 70 here at mid-day). Onward. . . .

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