JunoCam Global Maps Archive: Jupiter from Perijove Images
Summary
This article presents an archive of global maps created from JunoCam's color images of Jupiter, captured during each perijove (closest approach) of the Juno spacecraft's orbit. It describes how JunoCam operates — scanning a wide field of view in red, green, and blue strips during the spacecraft's rotation — and the technical process behind assembling these images into global maps of Jupiter.
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Twitter / XJunoCam Global Maps Archive: Jupiter from Perijove Imagesmissionjuno.swri.eduKey quotes
· 2 pulledJuno is in a highly elliptical, near-polar orbit, so on each orbit JunoCam takes well-resolved images within just a few hours around closest approach, which is called perijove (PJ).
As Juno is moving very rapidly at that time, the camera scans a 58-degree-wide field of view in narrow red, green and blue strips, and a single image is assembled from a long sequence of these strips taken during one rotation of the spacecraft at 2 rpm.
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