125-Fold Time-Lapsed Perijove-04 Fly-Over Animation Derived from Raw JunoCam Images, 2017-02-02
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| Description | On February 2, 2017, NASA's Juno spacecraft performed her 4th perijove pass (PJ-04), a close flyby over Jupiter. Juno orbits around Jupiter take about 53.5 days. They are elliptical and very eccentrical. The JunoCam instrument, Juno's public outreach and education camera, was operational during PJ04, and took several images. The images covered all of Jupiter latitudes. This allows rendering seamless animations from above Jupiter's north pole till above its south pole along Juno's trajectory. The animation shown here is time-lapsed by a factor of 125. Each frame of the animaton is rendered immediately from a respective raw JunoCam image. These raw JunoCam images consist of color strips ("framelets") the camera takes while the Juno spacecraft rotates with a spin rate of about two revolutions per minute. For each frame of the animation, the raw JunoCam framelets are merged to a color image showing Jupiter from a perspective as it has been for the respective simulated trajectory position. |
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| Date | 2017-03-28 |
| Source | commons.wikimedia.org |
| Author | Gerald Eichstädt |
