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2016-17, Report no.7: Preview of Juno’s perijove-5

Juno’s perijove-5 will be on 2017 March 27. Attached is a predictive map, showing how I expect the planet to

This is a summary of the main phenomena observed so far this year, up to Feb.25, with an annotated map

All our previous reports on the perijove-1 images are combined in this PDF: JupLet 2016e_PJ1_JHR-report.pdf For the full-size figures, please

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