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December 30, 2000, marks the close approach of the Cassini–Jupiter Millennium Flyby, when the Cassini space-
craft swings past the planet Jupiter on the way to Saturn for arrival in 2004. Another spacecraft, Galileo, has been
exploring Jupiter since 1995. This is the first time in the history of space exploration that two robotic spacecraft will
actively observe this gas giant planet at the same time from close range. While instruments on the Cassini space-
craft are conducting new observations of Jupiter, middle school and high school students from across the nation
will be observing Jupiter using ground-based 34-meter-diameter radio telescopes at the Deep Space Network’s
Goldstone Complex. The students and their teachers are participants in the Goldstone–Apple Valley Radio Tele-
scope (GAVRT) science education project, a partnership involving the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration (NASA), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Lewis Center for Educational Research (LCER) in Apple
Valley, California, and the Apple Valley Unified School District.
. .JMOC
. . . .Observations
......................... The Cassini–JMOC science team is
anticipating some exciting times during
The ground-based observations in
November 2000 through February 2001
support of Cassini–JMOC will be
when students are “on line” taking data
made at several frequencies
during the Cassini-Jupiter Millennium
spanning the microwave
Flyby.
spectrum. The 34-meter
research and develop-
ment (R&D) antenna
(DSS-13) at NASA’s
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Goldstone Deep
Space Communica-
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tions Complex
http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/applevalley
(DSCC) will be used
for the critical obser- http://www.avstc.org/gavrt
vations at 13.8 GHz.
The other frequencies http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jupiterflyby
observed at Goldstone will
be 2.3 GHz, 8.5 GHz, and
National Aeronautics and
32.0 GHz. Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
These multiband observations will California Institute of Technology
be used to separate the thermal and Pasadena, California