The Zeus Mission

[Omni122]

The Zeus Probe as seen in front of Jool. The transfer stage was overbuilt, so that's why it's still there. In this photo, it has just entered SOI.

I had set up an encounter with Tylo which allowed me to capture around Jool without using propellant. This is Tylo as seen from periapsis.

My first destination was Pol, I performed a small boost at Jool apoapsis which set me up on a Pol encounter, I flew by at an altitude of about 650 kilometers. 

Next was Vall, I performed a negative boost maneuver at apoapsis and after waiting a bit and doing a few correction burns I got a nail-bitingly close pass of Vall at just 14 kilometers above sea level.

After leaving Vall, I had to do a retrograde burn to recapture at Jool and avoid escaping.

Up next is Laythe, It was a fairly uninteresting encounter, with an altitude of 1.1k kilometers. It provided an assist which set me up to encounter Tylo.

Hello again, Tylo. I mainly went here because I forgot to do science when I met Tylo earlier, but I also went here so Tylo could assist me into an orbit that intersects with Jool's atmosphere.

The above photos were taken from Zeus shortly before crashing into Jool. I wanted to do some science but sadly entering a thick atmosphere at 8k m/s makes you instantly burn up.

And that's all folks! I hope you enjoyed reading, and feel free to take any of these screenshots to use as desktop backgrounds, in videos, etc.

Here's a link to the full gallery: https://imgur.com/gallery/aqxKVwE

 

[Vanamonde]

Congrats on your mission.