Juno at Jupiter, mission events as they unfold |
Juno at Jupiter, mission events as they unfold |
Jul 13 2016, 10:53 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 20-March 10 From: Western Australia Member No.: 5275 |
Oh, the Great (but elusive) Red Spot. For us part time amateur astronomers (work, clouds, weather etc)
our friend is very shy. About 2 months ago, peering through a fellow Society members, nice 10" f5 Newtonian, it was a case of bullseye. There it was, just coming into view on the eastern limb. For me, being absent due to the above factors, it was several years. For others, it was first time or more than 20 years. Has the spot livened up or was the weather at our deep sky site ideal and the timing spot on. Also, initially I could see only 3 of the Galilean moons. But one of our young members, accessing SkySafari, said there should be 4. Fair enough, closer inspection saw Europa in conjunction with Io. Over a matter of half an hour, they slowly drew apart. Maybe not Juno, but definitely Jupiter, King of the Planets. |
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Jul 13 2016, 12:38 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 12-August 12 Member No.: 6540 |
There is a higher resolution version here:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images...20707_hires.jpg I can't wait till late August to see closer images. I wonder if Jupiter has a polar hexagon like Saturn... |
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Jul 13 2016, 03:06 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
This makes me feeling a mix of happy, curious, excited, and nervous:
Juno Sends First In-orbit View: QUOTE "... JunoCam ... survived its first pass through Jupiter's extreme radiation environment without any degradation ..." The Juno team is currently working to place all images taken by JunoCam on the mission's website, where the public can access them. Hope, the EDRs will be included, and I'll be able to process them appropriately. MSSS seems to be able to provide excellent results, so I'm a bit more relaxed, that not all the processing is going to depend on me. |
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Jul 14 2016, 09:57 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 17-February 16 Member No.: 7899 |
I'm happy to report that, so far as I know, all instruments on the Juno spacecraft are reported to be healthy.
The mission folks will run a JOI-cleanup orbit-trim maneuver (OTM) on July 13. Its performance will determine if we need a subsequent OTM on July 27, 4 days before apojove. That maneuver is not necessarily required; it depends on how the cleanup OTM goes. If we did well enough with the July 13 cleanup OTM, then the July 27 OTM will be cancelled, and the mission will live with a little bit of discrepancy in the PJ1 longitude and timing (probably just a few seconds and less than a degree of longitude). |
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Jul 15 2016, 07:04 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Good shooting, Glenn!
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Jul 15 2016, 04:53 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
... the mission will live with a little bit of discrepancy in the PJ1 longitude and timing (probably just a few seconds and less than a degree of longitude). After I figured out what PJ meant, I had to think, "At what point does exclaiming 'By Jove I think we got it!' after an OTM become a tired joke?" Probably wore that one out during the 90s with Galileo. |
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Jul 15 2016, 09:47 PM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10151 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
Pioneer 10. Trust me!
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Jul 18 2016, 11:01 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
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Jul 19 2016, 01:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
Be warned that these all-spin images are large (1648 wide by 128*3*82 high) and mostly black, though the PNG format compresses them reasonably well.
Here's a graphic that describes the processing flow at a very basic level. Note that for the movie we just aligned the images in the three colors, there was no additional geometric processing. Enjoy! -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Jul 19 2016, 12:45 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
Those images are great! You can actually see features rotating with Jupiter, easiest the Great Red Spot, but more.
Here crops of processed versions of the lossless images 1586 and 1588: and as 2-images animated gif: The gif is rather lossy, so comparing the two above images is recommended. Processing parameters: JNCE_2016181_00C1586_V01_sc1468.0_brown_3.839251e_8_2.6e_15_zRot_0.002_rot80.46_120px.BMP.LBL ( 1.22K ) Number of downloads: 487 JNCE_2016181_00C1588_V01_sc1468.0_brown_3.839251e_8_2.6e_15_zRot_0.002_rot80.46_120px.BMP.LBL ( 1.22K ) Number of downloads: 480 |
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Jul 20 2016, 08:00 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
I'm trying to figure out how best to serve up these data to make them more accessible to people.
To begin with, here is an Excel spreadsheet containing all the information stripped from all the headers. https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/data/jun...h_metadata.xlsx I'd like to examine the images one by one to look for cool things like moon shadows on the planet, but it's a little tedious because of the images' great lengths. I thought that as I went through the photos I'd chop out the framelets of most interest, but I can't decide whether to leave the cropped images grayscale or to colorize them according to whether they're the red, green, or blue framelets. Would anyone here use either product if I went to the trouble of posting such crops? See attached for two examples. Each is the same crop from JNCE_2016181_00C1585_V01, containing 6 RGB triplets around the image of Jupiter and its moons. One has been colorized, one not. -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jul 20 2016, 09:21 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
Currently, I'm working on overview products like this preliminary one, in this case consisting of 30 roughly processed images (1307 to 1336):
Tomorrow I'll try to adjust the positions, as needed for movies or for stacking. To obtain the crops, I first create a processed full swath with 6 pixels per degree, then look for the position of Jupiter, in order to know which crop to define for hires images. This is almost fully automated; I'm extending this automation to further processing. Processing of the full dataset of 1200 images will take about one day per run (about one minute per image). I'd think, that eventually different types of products will be required for different purposes. This includes the narrow crops with focus on Jupiter, map projections, wider views including the Galilean satellites, up to the whole swathes for counting radiation, or looking for other satellites. |
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Jul 20 2016, 09:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2511 Joined: 13-September 05 Member No.: 497 |
I thought that as I went through the photos I'd chop out the framelets of most interest, but I can't decide whether to leave the cropped images grayscale or to colorize them according to whether they're the red, green, or blue framelets. If you do the latter then it's a little more obvious which band is which, and people can get into Photoshop and hand-register the images, though I sure hope no one is obsessive enough to do all 1400 images by hand that way! We considered putting out only the framelets containing the planet and a few surrounding ones, but raw is raw. My processing generates color-registered 800x400 images and throws all intermediate products away. We thought the 800x400s were too processed, though most people would probably be better served by something like that. See http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive...r-space/491963/ for an interesting take on the raw data release. -------------------- Disclaimer: This post is based on public information only. Any opinions are my own.
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Jul 20 2016, 10:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2346 Joined: 7-December 12 Member No.: 6780 |
For those who can't wait, here preliminary renditions of images 1310 to 1449.
10x reduced: ...And I'm convinced, that it has been a good decision to publish the full EDRs. Otherwise you always get the discussion, that NASA would be hiding something. And you never know what's serendipitiously waiting to be discovered outside the primary objectives. |
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Jul 20 2016, 11:04 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Currently, I'm working on overview products like this preliminary one, in this case consisting of 30 roughly processed images (1307 to 1336): These are terrific. I'm in need of some kind of thumbnail product I can use as a visual index to the files, so whenever you produce something that covers the entire data set, please share it with me! We considered putting out only the framelets containing the planet and a few surrounding ones, but raw is raw. My processing generates color-registered 800x400 images and throws all intermediate products away. We thought the 800x400s were too processed, though most people would probably be better served by something like that. I agree that if you're required to choose among options, the rawest option is the best option because it allows the greatest flexibility. But why limit it to just one option? I'd love to get my hands on your 800x400 versions as well! -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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