Juno Beams Back First In-Orbit Images of

Jupiter, Galilean Moons

NASAs Juno orbiter took these images on July 10, 2016, from about 2.7 million miles (4.3
million km away)
Juno survived its first pass through Jupiters extreme radiation environment without any degradation
and is ready to take on Jupiter, said Juno principal investigator Dr. Scott Bolton, from the Southwest
Research Institute.
We cant wait to see the first view of Jupiters poles, he added.
The new images were taken by the JunoCam, a visible-light camera/telescope designed to acquire the
best pictures ever taken of Jupiters polar regions.
But this instrument has another purpose to involve the world in planning and processing images,
carrying out steps the Juno science team would ordinarily do.

This is really the publics camera. We are hoping students and whole classrooms will get involved and
join our team, Dr. Bolton said.
JunoCam will continue to take images as we go around in this first orbit, said Juno co-investigator Dr.
Candy Hansen, from the Planetary Science Institute.
The first high-resolution images of the planet will be taken on August 27 when Juno makes its next
close pass to Jupiter.
Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, to study the giant planet for two years.
During its mission of exploration, the spacecraft will circle the gas giant 37 times, soaring low over the
planets cloud tops as close as about 2,600 miles (4,100 km). If Jupiter were the size of a basketball,
the equivalent distance would be only one-third of an inch (about 0.8 cm).
During these flybys, Juno will prove beneath the obscuring cloud cover of Jupiter and study its
auroras to learn more about the planets origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

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