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NASA’s Dangerous Juno Mission Will Soon Try to Reach 3,000 Miles from Jupiter’s Cloudtops Without Being Destroyed
“The scariest thing to me are the unknowns. So much about the Jupiter environment we will have to withstand is unknown. Nothing is certain about what's going to happen.”
- Planetary Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
“Juno is only about one third the way through its primary mission, and already we are seeing the beginnings of a new Jupiter. These astonishing science results are yet another example of Jupiter’s curve balls, and a testimony to the value of exploring the unknown from a new perspective with next-generation instruments. Juno’s unique orbit and evolutionary high-precision radio science and infrared technologies enabled these paradigm-shifting discoveries.”
- Scott Bolton, Ph.D., Juno Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX
March 17, 2018 Pasadena, California - In less than four months, NASA/JPL's Juno spacecraft will try the closest approach of any Earth machine so far with the goal to penetrate the giant planet's radiation belts. Scientists are now trying to keep up with Juno's data stream as it approaches the strongest gravity and magnetic fields in our solar system. July 4th, 2018, will be a big unknown. Will Juno be able to enter orbit around the biggest gas planet in our solar system without being destroyed after seven and a half years to get there (August 5, 2011-July 4, 2018)? Scientists in charge of this unique effort are actually afraid of what could happen when Juno tries to get to 3,000 miles from Jupiter's cloudtops.
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Cosmic Ray Radiation Is Dangerous and Getting Worse As Sun Is Often Spotless
“The radiation environment is worsening more rapidly than previously estimated. Over the last decade, the solar wind has exhibited low densities and magnetic field strengths, representing anomalous states that have never been observed during the Space Age.”
- Nathan Schwadron, Ph.D., Physicist, Univ. of New Hampshire
March 8, 2018 Durham, New Hampshire - In mid-February 2018, solar activity was as low as 2007 levels, which was one year before that solar minimum began. That's why solar physicists now project that the Solar Cycle 24 minimum leading up to Solar Cycle 25 will begin a year from now in the spring of 2019. Some solar physicists have even placed bets about whether low energy Solar Cycle 24 will keep extending into Solar Cycles 25 to 26 ending up in a Maunder Minimum of 1645 to 1715, when our Sun was blank without sunspots most of the time and coincided with a Little Ice Age.
Exoplanet Near Earth’s Nearest Star Might Have Been Scorched by Gigantic Solar Flare
Why Is Our Universe Expanding Faster Than Expected?
Largest Genome Ever Sequenced: 32 Billion Base Pairs!
India’s First-Ever Moon Mission to Launch for Lunar South Pole in March 2018.
Part 2: Pentagon Wants to Use Nuclear Weapons Against Cyberattacks
“We could see an unprecedented number of false warnings being issued by cyber attacks. And think how upsetting that will be to people.”
- Scott Portzline, Three Mile Island Alert, Security Committee Chairman, Harrisburg, PA
Climate Warming Is Turning 99% of Baby Green Sea Turtles Female
“This blew our minds because no one had ever heard of anything like this in a vertebrate. ... I think we're going to look at the greatest drop in species diversity ever seen since man has been around.”
- Biologist David Owens, Ph.D. Emeritus, College of Charleston, SC
January 26, 2018 - Charleston, South Carolina - For centuries in ancient China, Indonesia, Bali, Australia, Hawaii and the Cayman Islands, the big and beautiful green sea turtles have been eaten as a delicacy and their skin tanned for handbags. All the hunting, poaching and egg harvesting have greatly reduced the turtle populations. And now another threat to their survival is coming in a bizarre way. Climate change is turning 99% of baby sea turtles into females. That means fewer and fewer males to fertilize females, so by the end of this century warming century, the green sea turtles could be facing extinction.