RESULTS FROM JUNO (2018, Perijoves 11-17)
The Juno mission continues throughout 2018, with the spacecraft in a 53-day orbit around Jupiter.
Annotated images from Juno’s camera (JunoCam), and our comments on them, will be posted on this page: see links at bottom of this page.
They are also posted on the JunoCam web site itself: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam
Images from JunoCam are posted in the ‘Image Processing’ section of that web site. Credit for all original images: NASA / SwRI (Southwest Research Institute) / MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems). See our report on the PJ6 images for a brief explanation of the image products available.
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Reviews of Juno’s scientific findings to date, as well as amateur involvement with JunoCam, were given at a special workshop in London in 2018 May, organised by John Rogers and Leigh Fletcher. The workshop’s web site includes the workshop programme, and a 5-page review of it, and all the talks:
https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/physics/people/leighfletcher/ras-juno-europlanet-meeting-2018
Here is our BAA news item about it with this and other links: https://www.britastro.org/node/14397
Here is a 3-page review of the workshop published in the Journal of the BAA: JBAA 128-6 Juno conference.pdf
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Tables and diagrams of all Juno’s orbits from 2016 to 2021, including exact times and longitudes, are given in a link below (updated 2018 Oct.).
Dates of the perijoves in 2018 are as follows:
PJ11 | 2018 Feb 7 |
PJ12 | 2018 Apr 1 |
PJ13 | 2018 May 24 |
PJ14 | 2018 Jul 16 |
PJ15 | 2018 Sep 7 |
PJ16 | 2018 Oct 29 |
PJ17 | 2018 Dec 21 |
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