EGU24-14431, updated on 09 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14431
EGU General Assembly 2024
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Io's topography on the basis of JunoCam images

Gerald Eichstädt1, Glenn S. Orton2, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck3, Tristan Guillot4, Heidi Becker2, and Scott J. Bolton5
Gerald Eichstädt et al.
  • 1Stuttgart, Germany (gerald.eichstaedt@t-online.de)
  • 2Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA
  • 3Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • 4Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
  • 5Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Juno's close approach of Io, during the inbound branch of the Perijove-57 Jupiter flyby, allowed Juno's visible light imager, JunoCam, to take a short sequence of close-up Io images at a cadence of about one minute. Consecutive images cover overlapping areas on Io from different angles. The parallax effect is definitely perceptible for several of the highest mountains. The images also show shadows cast by some of the mountains onto their much flatter surroundings. Varying shading, to be distinguished from albedo and color variability, returns small-scale inclination data.  Mountains imaged near Io's limb reveal distinctive silhouettes.  We use all these ingredients to retrieve relative elevation data from JunoCam's close-up Io images.  We will summarize  the available data, the applied methods, and our derived digital terrain results.

How to cite: Eichstädt, G., Orton, G. S., Hansen-Koharcheck, C., Guillot, T., Becker, H., and Bolton, S. J.: Io's topography on the basis of JunoCam images, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-14431, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-14431, 2024.