VaPaL Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 First image capture by Juno: Taken on Sunday (10/7) at 4,3 million km. I know that spacecraft send low-res images before sending high-res so the team can select which one is worth spending time downloading with the low bandwidth. So I don't know if this is the low-res or final resolution, I heard that JunoCam is not a good camera, but I thought it wouldn't be that bad. Here's a photo from Cassini at 10 million km: Spoiler Anyway, Juno will get as close as 5000 km at perijove, so maybe the camera quality will be enough at this distance. I know that photos are not an important aspect of Juno mission, but since Jupiter is my favorite planet I can't say that this do not make me a little sad OBS: Sorry if the text is somewhat confusing or bad written, my english is not flowing well today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exploro Posted July 18, 2016 Share Posted July 18, 2016 (edited) Cassini obviously has a better imaging system compared to JunoCam as photographic data of high resolution was an important aspect of Cassini's survey of the Saturnian system (especially in the early years).Surveying moons are not the focus of the Juno mission. As such having imagers with equivalent to Cassini or of Galileo is not necessary. According to the wiki article on JunoCam; it's resolution of 15 km/px at periapsis would be superior to Hubble's 119 km/px from it's vantage point above Earth. Edited July 18, 2016 by Exploro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4pt0r Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 On 7/17/2016 at 7:06 PM, Exploro said: Cassini obviously has a better imaging system compared to JunoCam as photographic data of high resolution was an important aspect of Cassini's survey of the Saturnian system (especially in the early years).Surveying moons are not the focus of the Juno mission. As such having imagers with equivalent to Cassini or of Galileo is not necessary. According to the wiki article on JunoCam; it's resolution of 15 km/px at periapsis would be superior to Hubble's 119 km/px from it's vantage point above Earth. considerably, and the hubble pics look great, cant wait for these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glaran K'erman Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 2 hours ago, r4pt0r said: considerably, and the hubble pics look great, cant wait for these. I believe that is a composite view where the auroras are in the ultraviolet, much like Chandra took these of the aurora in the x-ray. Can be a bit deceiving but JunoCam's views from the visible spectrum should be different. Nevertheless exciting and totally awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaPaL Posted August 29, 2016 Share Posted August 29, 2016 Juno completes its first orbit around Jupiter on Saturdayhttp://spaceflight101.com/juno-completes-closest-pass-of-jupiter-ahead-of-orbital-trim-maneuver/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frida Space Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 First science from Juno's first perijove (after the JOI perijove, of course). http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 well looks like juno went into safe mode and shut off all instruments before perijove, so no science was gathered. it was however successfully restarted. looks like we will have to wait until December to get more data link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatastrophicFailure Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Aw, man. And that's in addition to the engine snafu that prevented them from shortening the orbit. Maybe it's the radiation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarStreak2109 Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 More explanation from the NASA guys running Juno. All's well with Juno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaPaL Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 A very interesting summary about the "new Jupiter" that Juno unveiled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insert_name Posted June 6, 2018 Share Posted June 6, 2018 Prime Mission is now funded till 2021 http://nasa.gov/feature/nasa-re-plans-juno-s-jupiter-mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Kerman Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 A processed video of Juno's 21st December 2018 Perijove-17 Jupiter flyby. Quote Juno's Perijove-17 Jupiter Flyby, Reconstructed in 125-Fold Time-Lapse 2019-02-10 23:46 UT Credit : Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / SPICE / Gerald Eichstädt © public domain Submitted By : Maquet-80 Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 17 On December 21, 2018, NASA's Juno probe successfully performed her Perijove-17 Jupiter flyby. The movie is a reconstruction of the 2 hours and 15 minutes between 2018-12-21T16:15:00.000 and 2018-12-21T18:30:00.000 in 125-fold time-lapse. It is based on 30 of the JunoCam images taken, and on spacecraft trajectory data provided via SPICE kernel files. In steps of five real-time seconds, one still images of the movie has been rendered from at least one suitable raw image. This resulted in short scenes, usually of a few seconds. Playing with 25 images per second results in 125-fold time-lapse. Resulting overlapping scenes have been blended using the ffmpeg tool. In natural colors, Jupiter looks pretty pale. Therefore, the still images are approximately illumination-adusted, i.e. almost flattened, and consecutively gamma-stretched to the 4th power of radiometric values, in order to enhance contrast and color. The movie starts with a reconstructed in-bound sequence approaching Jupiter from north on its night side. Then the orbit approaches Jupiter down to an altitude of about 5,000 km near 18.1 degrees north (planetocentric), according to long-term planning of November 2017. JunoCam looked towards Jupiter's limb during close flyby. Then, the Great Red Spot, and the anticyclone Oval BA come into the field of view. This is followed by a transition into the outbound orbit, with images of Jupiter's south polar region. https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=6465 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted February 16, 2019 Share Posted February 16, 2019 On 6/7/2018 at 1:14 AM, insert_name said: Prime Mission is now funded till 2021 http://nasa.gov/feature/nasa-re-plans-juno-s-jupiter-mission Radiation may object. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JoeSchmuckatelli Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 'Murica! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tater Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?source=junocam&phases[ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperFastJellyfish Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 I made a potato .gif with the images: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 Just now, SuperFastJellyfish said: I made a potato .gif with the images: I wonder if something like FILM could pan fry those potato stills into a more delicious video? https://film-net.github.io/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 I know this was a month ago but Juno found active volcanic plumes on Io during it's second flyby early this month: Spoiler Bonus image of Io's nightside (illuminated by Jupiter). This area hasn't been seen since Voyager in the 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted Thursday at 11:44 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:44 PM Wow, that is one heck of a mountain: No height exaggeration here, the Juno team calls it 'Steeple Mountain' and it's between 5 and 7 Kilometers high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted Friday at 12:11 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:11 AM 22 minutes ago, Minmus Taster said: Wow, that is one heck of a mountain: No height exaggeration here, the Juno team calls it 'Steeple Mountain' and it's between 5 and 7 Kilometers high. So I'm NOT necessarily completely wrong about that thing casting a shadow on Europa that I estimated to be 3-7 km tall by counting pixels? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minmus Taster Posted Friday at 12:14 AM Share Posted Friday at 12:14 AM 2 minutes ago, cubinator said: So I'm NOT necessarily completely wrong about that thing casting a shadow on Europa that I estimated to be 3-7 km tall by counting pixels? Wow, maybe taller/steeper mountains are common on smaller active worlds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PakledHostage Posted Friday at 05:01 AM Share Posted Friday at 05:01 AM 5 hours ago, Minmus Taster said: No height exaggeration here, the Juno team calls it 'Steeple Mountain' and it's between 5 and 7 Kilometers high. So it's a bit like ours here on Earth, standing 5.5 km tall, adjacent to the Gulf of Alaska: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthgently Posted Friday at 10:50 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:50 AM 5 hours ago, PakledHostage said: So it's a bit like ours here on Earth, standing 5.5 km tall, adjacent to the Gulf of Alaska: But much steeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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