Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO)

The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, the suspected ocean of which is one of the places where simple alien life is a possibility in our solar system. Ganymede and Callisto, which are now thought to have liquid, salty oceans beneath their icy surfaces, were also targets of interest for the probe.

Science payload mass: 1500 kg
Ion thrusters: multiple 30kW,Isp=7000s
Mission design life: 20 years

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Science & Technology

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• Jupiter
• Icy
• Moons
• Orbiter
• JIMO
• NASA
• space
• ion
• thruster
• hall
• specific
• impulse
• jupiter
• spacecraft
• mission
• europa
• callisto

[pyzrm19]

jupiter has 100+ satellites

[letterpool]

Of course they accept it as a possibility.. they don't want to be left in the cold when life is found. They still need to be around to fill up the collection plates.

[lisayos]

Don't worry, China will likely do something similar and pioneer the technology. Obama wants the United States to lack both vision and leadership in space. Ditto :(

[T0B0KKE]

@Helge129 Thermoelectric effect.

[Helge129]

@T0B0KKE No, they never were. The plan was to have a sort of Torpedo, containing a probe. The tip of that "torprobe" would be heated by some nuclear material decaying, and releasing heat in the process. The Voyager probes are powered by a similar process.

[tomyferland1234]

@HardRokMiner Lemme guess, you are religious?

[HardRokMiner]

@KarbineKyle - Religion? WTF are you talking about you idiot. Try war, Wall Street and bank bail outs. Theres the wste of money. Wheres the funding coming from in religion you fucking moron?

[KarbineKyle]

I can't believe they canceled JIMO! WTF? If we would stop funding our money towards war and religion, we could!

[sedna69a]

Cancelled! :(

[RecklessTornado]

@pyzrm19 probably

[T0B0KKE]

Weren't they planing on nuking europa to melt the ice and expose the ocean like they did with Deep Impact? Or was just a I-want-to-do-this-but-I-is-env­ironmental-imoral?

[WeAreTheRobots]

@TheMandoor:

-Evolution is already considered a fact by science.

It's just that some people don't want to accept it, or they remain ignorant about the evidence.

-Life on other planets is not a proof against god (which, anyway?), but against specific claims in scriptures of particular religions.

-Life in a moon of Saturn hardly would do anything at all. It would be meaningful and deeply changing for a lot, but there are conflicts with or without religion.

-See "Europa Jupiter System Mission".