A "Flight" Over Jupiter by the spacecraft juno

A "Flight" Over Jupiter by the spacecraft juno

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Space Explorers
14 Video Views·Dec 10, 2022

The Juno spacecraft began its five-year journey to Jupiter on August 4, 2011 and reached its destination on July 4, 2016. The spacecraft will fly around Jupiter in a polar orbit. Its goals are to map the magnetic field, observe the aurorae, determine the amount of water and ammonia in the atmosphere, as well as understand the origin and evolution of the planet, Jupiter.

This video uses images from NASA's Juno mission to reconstruct what it might have looked like traveling alongside the Juno spacecraft as it made its 27th near-Jupiter flyby on February 2nd. June 2020.

During the closest approach to this pass, the Juno spacecraft came within about 2,100 miles (3,400 km) of Jupiter's cloud tops. At that point, Jupiter's strong gravity accelerated the spacecraft to tremendous speeds - about 130,000 mph (209,000 km/h) above the planet.

Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill created the video using data from the spacecraft's JunoCam instrument. The sequence combines 41 JunoCam stills projected digitally onto a sphere, with a virtual "camera" providing a view of Jupiter from different angles as the spacecraft accelerates.

The original JunoCam images were taken on June 2, 2020, between 2:47 a.m. PDT (5:47 a.m. EDT) and 4:25 a.m. PDT (7:25 a.m. EDT).

JunoCam raw images are available for public review and processing into image products at
https://missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing

You can find more information about NASA's citizen science at https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience
https://www.nasa.gov/solve/opportunities/citizenscience

More information about Juno is available at
https://www.nasa.gov/juno
https://missionjuno.swri.edu

Image credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Image processing by Kevin M. Gill © CC BY
Music by Vangelis

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