日本地球惑星科学連合2015年大会

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[P-PS01] Outer Solar System Exploration Today, and Tomorrow

2015年5月26日(火) 16:15 〜 18:00 A03 (アパホテル&リゾート 東京ベイ幕張)

コンビーナ:*木村 淳(東京工業大学地球生命研究所)、藤本 正樹(宇宙航空研究開発機構・宇宙科学研究本部)、笠羽 康正(東北大学大学院 理学研究科 地球物理学専攻)、佐々木 晶(大阪大学大学院理学研究科宇宙地球科学専攻)、谷川 享行(産業医科大学医学部)、関根 康人(東京大学大学院新領域創成科学研究科複雑理工学専攻)、佐柳 邦男(ハンプトン大学)、Steven Vance(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech)、座長:佐々木 晶(大阪大学大学院理学研究科宇宙地球科学専攻)、並木 則行(国立天文台 RISE月惑星探査検討室)

17:30 〜 17:33

[PPS01-P01] JUICEによる木星系科学探査:日本チームの参加

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*佐々木 晶1斎藤 義文2JUICE JAPAN2 (1.大阪大学理学研究科宇宙地球科学専攻、2.宇宙科学研究所・宇宙航空研究開発機構)

キーワード:木星系, 地下海, 生命存在領域, 氷衛星

The largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter, is a rapidly rotating hydrogen-helium gaseous body with strong magnetic field and associated magnetosphere. Recent discoveries of exoplanets suggest that Jupiter should represent a body not only in the solar system but also in the universe. Jupiter has various satellites: four large satellites, Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto, were discovered by Galileo 400 years ago. Three of them except Io are icy moons.
The Jupiter system was observed by several flyby missions such as Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini, New Horizons and investigated by Galileo orbiter and its atmospheric entry probe. Galileo spacecraft data was very limited without capability of its high-gain antenna. So far we knew about Jovian system much less than the Saturnian System, where Cassini spacecraft has been continuously observing. JUNO mission will start observation of Jupiter in 2016. But since the main target of JUNO taking polar orbits is structure and composition of Jupiter, observation of satellites would be limited.
JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) is the ESA first Large-class mission of Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program. The emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants, and the focus is to characterise the conditions of habitable environments among the Jovian icy satellites, with special emphasis on the Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. JUICE will be launched in 2022, and will arrive at Jupiter in 2030. After several fly-bys to Europa and Callisto, JUICE will be inserted into an orbit around Ganymede in 2032 and will continue scientific observations for eight months until the end of nominal mission in 2033.
The discussion for the international collaboration for Jupiter mission between ESA and Japan (JAXA) started in 2006. Initially JAXA proposed a magnetospheric orbiter whereas ESA and NASA proposed Ganymede and Europa orbiters, respectively. After the selection of JUICE by ESA in May 2012, six Japanese groups were invited to participate in the mission as Co-Is with instrument development for model payloads. Finally through the selection process of instrument development teams, four of Japanese team partners were selected for the official JUICE instruments. These are GALA (Laser altimeter), SWI (Sub-millimeter wave instrument), PEP (Particle environment package), and RPWI (Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation). Moreover three Japanese scientists are invited to participate in the initial scientific analysis as Co-Is of JANUS (Optical cameras) and J-MAG (Magnetometer). And it is proposed that a longer Mast (for J-MAG) could be supplied from Japan.