6 Jul 2016

PSI Senior Scientist Candice Hansen is Co-Investigator in charge of the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft that entered Jupiter’s orbit July 4.

Image: The image above is the final view taken by the JunoCam instrument before Juno's instruments were powered down in preparation for orbit insertion. Juno obtained this color view on June 29, 2016, at a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers) from Jupiter. The spacecraft is approaching over Jupiter's north pole, providing an unprecedented perspective on the Jupiter system, including its four large moons.
JunoCam is a public outreach program that invites the public to suggest which points of interest the camera will photograph. Visithttps://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for more information.

And visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpsQimYhNkA to see a video. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured a unique time-lapse movie of the Galilean satellites in motion about Jupiter. The movie begins on June 12th with Juno 10 million miles from Jupiter, and ends on June 29th, 3 million miles distant. The innermost moon is volcanic Io; next in line is the ice-crusted ocean world Europa, followed by massive Ganymede, and finally, heavily cratered Callisto. Galileo observed these moons to change position with respect to Jupiter over the course of a few nights. From this observation he realized that the moons were orbiting mighty Jupiter, a truth that forever changed humanity's understanding of our place in the cosmos. Earth was not the center of the Universe. For the first time in history, we look upon these moons as they orbit Jupiter and share in Galileo’s revelation. This is the motion of nature's harmony.