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Juno at PJ54

JunoCam at PJ54: What the pictures show

Juno’s Perijove-54 was on 2023 Sep.7.  There have been no major changes since PJ53.  This brief report presents the global and polar maps that Gerald Eichstädt has created from the JunoCam images, along with a ground-based map from Rob Bullen. It also describes the progressive reddening of the images during the mission (which is probably due to radiation exposure).

The report, with miniature figures, is here:   Report-on-PJ54

The full-size figures are here:   PJ54-report_Figures

Here is Figure 3, the global map from JunoCam:

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