JunoCam data: Cruise Phase

Credit for these images goes to NASA / JPL.

JunoCam is a "pushframe" imager on a spinning spacecraft.

• Here is some information on JunoCam from Malin Space Science Systems, who built the camera. They also provide a graphical index page to the Earth flyby imagery, with images in JPEG format.
• Read this blog entry for some limited introduction to JunoCam.
• Here is an open-access scientific paper describing JunoCam (Hansen et al, 2014).
• Here is the JunoCam team website.

So far, JunoCam data is available from launch (August 5, 2011) through the Earth flyby on October 9, 2013, through February 2014, when Juno had reached about 2 astronomical units from the Sun. During this time, JunoCam performed three main types of observations: imaging of Earth (when it also may have imaged the Moon and Jupiter); imaging of star fields; and a search for zodiacal light.

For each JunoCam observation, there is an EDR (Engineering Data Record) and RDR (Reduced Data Record). Each of these also has a detatched text label.

For metadata, this is the PDS-supplied index file, and this is a more thorough metadata table made by concatenating data from the individual text labels. Both are in tab-delimited text format.

JunoCam has three filters: red, green, blue, and methane.

Aug 26, 2011: Initial checkout (1 AU)

Mar 14, 2012: Star imaging (1.9 AU)

Oct 20, 2012: Zodiacal light observation (2.2 AU)

Mar 29, 2013: Zodiacal light observation (1.7 AU)

Apr 17, 2013: Star imaging (1.6 AU)

Apr 18, 2013: Star imaging (1.6 AU)

Oct 9, 2013: Earth flyby (1 AU)

To see thumbnails of the Earth flyby images, visit this page at Malin Space Science Systems.

Dec 3, 2013: Zodiacal light observation (1.3 AU)

Feb 7, 2014: Zodiacal light observation (2 AU)

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