Juno Perijove 57, December 30, 2023 Options

[volcanopele]

I know the first close Io flyby is still a couple of months away but I'm going to go ahead and start up the topic now with a few preview images that the global map from PJ55 into the pixel scale, lighting conditions, and orientation of the highest resolution images that JunoCam would take (illuminated by the sun, there's always a chance for Jupiter-shine images), based on the current reference spk and c-kernel:




This also assumes an image cadence of 1 every other rotation (so 1 per minute).

info about the encounter:

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Perijove    Date (UTC)    SC Altitude (Io, km)    SC Latitude (Io IAU, deg)    SC W Longitude (Io IAU, deg)    Vinf (Io, km/s)    Phase Angle    Magnetic Latitude of Io (Jupiter System III, deg)    E Longitude of Io (Jupiter System III, deg)    True Anomaly of Io (deg)    Separation Angle
PJ57    12/30/2023 08:36:00.681    1500.021    63.694    94.641    30.047    108.885    3.418    228.269    248.805    21.175