Thursday 19 September 2019

Downloads from the Juno Satellite orbiting Jupiter


A crop from Juno Image 7425 taken on the 12th Of September 2019 at 03:39:56 UT when the space craft was at altitude 8097.9 km, Longitude 322.4213 and Latitude 25.9796. Credit for image processing: Jodrell Plank Observatory Imaging Team Leader Pip Stakkert



Io shown in front of Juno image of Io's shadow transit. Credit for Io image: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Credit for mage processing: Jodrell Plank Observatory Community outreach coordinator – Karl Seguine.
" Today the whole team spent a very happy afternoon in the 'Observatory Media Studio'. After a couple hours of jolly political banter we put together the above images from data downloads from the Juno Spacecraft.

The images show a shadow transit of the innermost moon Io across the cloud tops of the planet Jupiter. IA shadow transit of Io doesn't happen everyday but it is far from a rare event. What is special is that Juno was in the right location to photograph the event.

Our sponsors Anita and George witnessed and imaged a shadow transit of Io and Ganymede back in 2014. They witnessed and imaged it from a distance of 588 million km whereas Juno imaged it from 8,000 km".
- Kurt Thrust acting CEO and current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory



Link:https://george-artcabinedujardin.blogspot.com/2014/03/double-shadow-transit.html

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