Recent results from the imagery of Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit
- 1Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States of America (heidi.n.becker@jpl.nasa.gov)
- 2University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, United States
- 3Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
- 4Université Cȏte d’Azur, OCA, Lagrange CNRS, Nice, France
- 5California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
- 6Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
- 7Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, United States
The Juno Mission has recast its spacecraft engineering star camera as a visible wavelength science imager. Developed and primarily used to support onboard attitude determination, Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) has been put to use as an in situ high energy particle detector for profiling Jupiter’s radiation belts and as a low light sensitive camera for exploring multiple phenomena and features of the Jovian system. Juno’s unprecedented polar orbit and closest approach of ~4000 km have yielded high resolution SRU imagery of Jupiter’s lightning and aurorae from as little as 50,000 km from the 1 bar level and unique Jovian dust ring and satellite images. We will present recent SRU results and discuss the implications for Jupiter’s atmosphere that stem from the SRU lightning observations.
How to cite: Becker, H., Alexander, J., Atreya, S., Bolton, S., Brennan, M., Brown, S., Florence, M., Guillaume, A., Guillot, T., Ingersoll, A., Levin, S., Lunine, J., Steffes, P., and Aglyamov, Y.: Recent results from the imagery of Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-9585, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9585, 2020
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