Pennies for Pele - Galileo Imaging in I33
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NASA and JPL recently announced that the Galileo mission has been extended one final time. In this mission, the Galileo spacecraft will flyby the Jovian moons Callisto, Io (3 times), and Amalthea before crashing into Jupiter in September 2003. In 2001, remote sensing is planned. This includes the flyby of Callisto and two of the flybys of Io. However, NASA has refused to allow remote sensing in what many believe to be the most important flyby of Io for remote sensing, I33 (flyby of Io in the 33rd Orbit). In this flyby, Galileo will fly over the projovian hemisphere of Io, an area imaged best by Voyager. Voyager found many interesting features on this hemisphere. Some of these features, however, are still mysterious. Galileo has not imaged this hemisphere very well during its mission and this flyby would allow us the best imaging of this hemisphere. The amount of money needed to fund remote sensing in this orbit would only be .004% of the total NASA budget, or $600,000. We believe that remote sensing in I33 is important for understanding features seen by Voyager, at low resolution by Galileo, and of features on the other hemisphere that was well seen by Galileo. We believe that NASA should reverse its decision on remote sensing in I33.
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22 signatures
Goal: 10,000
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10 June 2010
5 April 2010
5 April 2010
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Ingrid Daubar
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2 April 2010
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Rachel Mastrapa
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2 April 2010
2 April 2010
1 April 2010
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Michael Carroll
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I was mystified to note that no imaging would take place on the projovian side of Io, and that no SSI imaging of Amalthea would be undertaken either. Can this valuable science be saved? I hope so!
1 April 2010
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Andreas Ekholm
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1 April 2010
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Don Davis
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It would be senseless to not allow as much data to be gathered by Galileo as possible considering the many hurdles this mission has had to clear. It would be sadly ironic if no images were gathered from Galileo's last close passage to Io, as happened duri
1 April 2010
13.
Les Kostka
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I think continued funding of the space program is vital to our security and well being.
1 April 2010
12.
Cynthia Phillips
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1 April 2010
1 April 2010
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Robert Pappalardo
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Not funding remote sensing during I33 is simply penny wise and dollar foolish.
1 April 2010
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Enzo Cataldo
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I support all points made above. I strongly believe that, spending some extra money now (for a good reason), will be equivalent to saving a lot of money for the future!
1 April 2010
1 April 2010
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Robert Kline
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1 April 2010
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L.W.Perkins
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I am a astro artist and I would support my tax dollars going to all the imaging we can get--if you are already there, why be cheap? What's a few more dollars for some very worthwhile info?
31 March 2010
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Erik Doescher
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Nasa needs to get their priorities straight,, this will be one of their last chances to image Io in a long time.
30 March 2010
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Joshua Kitchener
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30 March 2010
30 March 2010
29 March 2010
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Constantine Thomas
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