• Interplanetary Outpost: The Human and Technological Challenges of Exploring the Outer Planets
• Living Among Giants: Exploring and Settling the Outer Solar System
• Revolutionary Concepts for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE) [Paper]
• Revolutionary Concepts for Human Outer Planet Exploration (HOPE) [PowerPoint]
• High Power MPD Nuclear Electric Propulsion(NEP) for Artificial Gravity HOPE Missions to Callisto
• Crewed mission to Callisto using advanced plasma propulsion systems
• Conceptual design of in-space vehicles for Human Exploration of the Outer Planets
• ARGOSY: ARchitecture for Going to the Outer solar SYstem
• Selection of an effective architecture for a precursor mission to Callisto
• [Photon-enabled Planetary Small Spacecraft Missions for Planetary Science]

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• Callisto: A Guide to the Origin of the Jupiter System
• Galileo at Callisto: overview of nominal mission results
• A tenuous, collisional atmosphere on Callisto
• Callisto: large-scale mass movements observed from the Galileo nominal mission
• Long-term evolution of the Galilean satellites: the capture of Callisto into resonance
• Geology of Lofn Crater, Callisto
• Modeling of ice pinnacle formation on Callisto
• Large mass movements on Callisto
• Sublimation-driven erosion on Callisto: A landform simulation model test
• Callisto's Atmosphere and Its Space Environment: Prospects for the Particle Environment Package on Board JUICE
• Callisto - (Jeffrey M. Moore)

Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone can recommend any good books on Callisto?

Thanks :)

Do you guys believe that manned exploration of Callisto is feasible within the next ~30 years? If not, how long do you think? Also, do you guys reckon that colonization of Callisto is a good idea after Mars?

Thanks :) Would love to hear you guys comments on this.

I can't believe it took me this long to find this place. I love Callisto and think it's one of the most special places in our Solar System. I could go on at length.

I am sorta writing this backstory to a sci-fi novel/movie about a manned mission to Callisto, and have all sorts of ideas. I'd love to discuss them with you.

The National Space Science Center (NSSC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is in the very early planning stages of a future Chinese space mission to the Jovian system.

https://preview.redd.it/f8xnafems5f51.jpg?width=1268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96cb90bd918dcb8cfda8cd85a13cb8aba57d3bfc

JCO, the Jupiter Callisto Orbiter, first flies by and characterizes several irregular satellites during its Jovian orbital tour. It is then injected into Callisto orbit to characterize its surface and interior, investigate its degree of differentiation and search for the possible existence of an internal ocean. As an option, JCO could release a lander to Callisto’s surface to perform key measurements of chemical composition, clues to understanding the formation scenario of the Galilean moons.

After an extensive Jupiter orbital tour it is foreseen to enter into an orbit around Callisto to investigate the internal structure, as well as the exosphere of Callisto. Tracking data of a Callisto orbiter promises to extend our knowledge of the interior structure of Callisto significantly beyond of what can even be expected from JUICE. A laser altimeter would allow for accurate global topography measurements and enable the use of altimetry cross-overs to substantially improve the precise orbit determination and geodetic parameter recovery. An on-board accelerometer would enable to separate all kinds of non-gravitational accelerations from the gravitational signal and significantly facilitate the dynamical spacecraft modeling.

Callisto geodesy: A simulation study to support further space missions to the Jovian system

Gan De: Science Objectives and Mission Scenarios For China’s Mission to the Jupiter System

https://presentations.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-20179_presentation.pdf

The mission is competing for The Discovery Program funding. More details will be announced on 11 December 2019 at AGU Fall Meeting.

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/500346

MAGIC (Magnetics, Altimetry, Gravity and Imaging of Callisto) is a high performance low altitude orbital mission that will investigate Callisto for over a year and address questions of Callisto’s differentiation, state of hydrostatic equilibrium, the presence of an ocean, the age of its surface, and the conditions at the time of its formation. After a 7-year cruise to Jupiter and a series of flybys the proposed spacecraft will enter into a 100 km circular orbit for a few months to obtain imagery, magnetics, altimetry and gravity before lowering into a 50-km near circularpolar orbit for its primary mapping phase of 1 year to obtain four global datasets:imagery, altimetry, magnetometry, and gravity.

This camera will be able to cover 100% of Callisto surface at≤2 km/pixel, 41 % at≤1 km/pixel, 14 % at≤400m/pixel, 6.5% at ≤200 m/pixel, and some targets at resolutions ~ 10 m/pixel, with 4 colour imaging at medium resolutions.

https://ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov/IPM/PDF/1054.pdf

So we are going to get good pictures and maps of Callisto after multiple fly-by maneuvers at Callisto after 2030