Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hansen, C. J.
• Caplinger, M. A.
• Ingersoll, A.
• Ravine, M. A.
• Jensen, E.
• Bolton, S.
• Orton, G.

Titel

Junocam: Juno’s Outreach Camera

Ist Teil von

• Space science reviews, 2017-11, Vol.213 (1-4), p.475-506

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Junocam is a wide-angle camera designed to capture the unique polar perspective of Jupiter offered by Juno’s polar orbit. Junocam’s four-color images include the best spatial resolution ever acquired of Jupiter’s cloudtops. Junocam will look for convective clouds and lightning in thunderstorms and derive the heights of the clouds. Junocam will support Juno’s radiometer experiment by identifying any unusual atmospheric conditions such as hotspots. Junocam is on the spacecraft explicitly to reach out to the public and share the excitement of space exploration. The public is an essential part of our virtual team: amateur astronomers will supply ground-based images for use in planning, the public will weigh in on which images to acquire, and the amateur image processing community will help process the data.