Juno Perijove 23, November 03, 2019 Options

[Gerald]

Some of the PJ23 data are already available.

I'll start with a JPG version of several selected "pretty pictures". Colors are a white-balanced in an arbitrary way. The images went through several post-processing steps.

#17, #18:


#19, #20:

[Bjorn Jonsson]

Image PJ23_23 in an approximately true color/contrast and enhanced version:



Separate images showing areas farther to the left and right will follow later.

This is a very high resolution image, here Juno was only ~5200 km above Jupiter's cloud tops. The perijove latitude is now at latitude ~25 degrees north instead of closer to the equator as it was during the earlier orbits. The areas now imaged at the highest resolution are usually more spectacular visually than the fuzzier and more bland areas closer to the equator. As a result, lots of cloud shadows and other high contrast features are now imaged at very high resolution.

By the way I noticed that there has been some 'geometric' change at PJ23 that manifests itself as small gaps in the blue channel at the right edge of some of my processed images. This is different from all of the other orbits where the missing data at the right edge was red:



I'm not yet sure exactly what has changed but at least this isn't something that required any changes to my processing pipeline - everything still works perfectly.