JunoCam
NASA's Juno satellite is in orbit around Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. This satellite carries the JunoCam, a visible-light camera controlled by scientists on Earth. JunoCam is also the name of the collaboration among scientists and citizen scientists who are working together to use this camera and the data and images it captures to learn more about Jupiter and similar gas giants.
Love processing images? Are you fascinated by the intersection of art and science? This project is for you!
ages
18 and up
division
Planetary Science
where
Online
launched
2016
What you’ll do
- Take and share images with your own telescope - or one you borrow from your local library - and submit them to the project to help direct the JunoCam towards Jupiter’s most interesting features.
- Download JunoCam raw image data to process by creating collages, adding color enhancements, etc. Share your creations back with the JunoCam image library.
- Join in the project Discussion forum to ask questions, share ideas, and learn from others.
Requirements
- Time: Weeks
- Equipment: You’ll need one of the other of these to participate:
- Telescope equipped with a camera (note that many libraries lend telescopes)
- Web-connected device
- Knowledge:
- How to use a telescope and how to find Jupiter (your local amateur astronomy club may be able to help) OR
- How to process images.
Get started!
- Visit our project website.
- Read the Submission Guidelines to get familiar with requirements and tips for submissions.
- Use a telescope (many libraries lend these) to make images of Jupiter, or download raw data from the project website to process into images.
- Share your images! Contribute your images of Jupiter to the JunoCam project.
Learn More
Interested in Jupiter but not ready to process images or operate a telescope? Check out our sister program Jovian Vortex Hunter on Zooniverse!
JUPITER PJ44_39 CROP, EXAGGERATED COLOR/CONTRAST 2022-08-20 02:58 UT Submitted By : BrianSwift Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 44 Image data collected by JunoCam instrument on Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 24279 km at 2022-08-17T14:23:23 Spherical projection at 45 pixels per degree. Images (processed with Juno3D Mathematica/Blender pipeline available on Github.) Size: 2.5 Megapixel (1358-by-1894 16-bit PNG, 13.3MB) File: zP44_39_acrop.png Raw Source File: JNCE_2022229_44C00039_V01-raw.png See this image in JunoCam gallery at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=13579
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift © CC BY
PERIJOVE 37 POPUP CLOUDS 2021-10-20 04:14 UT The image is cropped from a reprojected PJ37 image, approximately illumination-adjusted, gamma-stretched to the 4th power of linear radiometric values, arbitrarily white-balanced and sharpened. It shows popup-clouds in a northern folded filametary region (FFR). See this image in the JunoCam gallery at https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=11463. Submitted By : Maquet-80 Mission Phase : PERIJOVE 37
NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt
