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The Juno mission continues: Images from perijove-4

Juno successfully performed its fourth orbital pass low over the planet (perijove-4) on 2017 Feb.2, with all instruments turned on

Juno had another successful pass over Jupiter at its fourth perijove on 2017 Feb.2. JunoCam took another fine set of

An amazing animated map of Jupiter’s winds has been released by Peter Rosen and colleagues in Sweden, portraying real observations

This paper is in press in the Journal of the BAA (2017). The text and tables are in this PDF:

For completeness, here are the best images just before and after Perijove-3 on 2016 Dec.11, labelled to show the major

Juno’s Perijove-4 will be on 2017 Feb.2. Attached is a predictive map, showing how I expect the planet to look,

Although it is still early in the apparition, plenty of interesting things have already happened on Jupiter: new convective outbreaks

[Note: This was originally posted on 2017 Jan.11, after Perijove-3, but was not made public until 2018 March 7, when

A white plume has erupted in a previously undisturbed sector of the SEB, and is likely to be the start

This report, pointing out features that can be identified in Juno’s images taken at Perijove-3, is a compilation of the