Blogs

A new look at Europa, with old data

Ted Stryk • December 26, 2018

Ted Stryk shows us a new color, near-global view of Europa made from Galileo spacecraft data captured in 1996.

How I created a Jupiter rotation video using Hubble data

Judy Schmidt • November 09, 2018 •

Judy Schmidt shares the technique she used to make a beautiful new animation of Jupiter.

Looking at Io's Volcanoes Since Galileo

Jason Perry • October 18, 2018

It’s been almost 17 years since NASA's Galileo spacecraft took meaningful data of Jupiter’s volcanic moon.

Here are some recent postcards from Jupiter

Jason Davis • August 15, 2018 •

Let's check in on NASA's Juno spacecraft, which completed its 14th close flyby of Jupiter last month.

Eleven perijoves

Emily Lakdawalla • May 18, 2018 •

Seán Doran has made a cool visual index to the images that JunoCam took during Juno's first 12 closest approaches to Jupiter.

Merged Cassini and Juno global map of Jupiter

Juno meets Cassini: A new merged global map of Jupiter

Björn Jónsson • May 14, 2018 •

The Juno spacecraft that is currently orbiting Jupiter has obtained the first good images of Jupiter's polar regions. I am presenting here a combined global map of Jupiter, made from a Cassini map I made for the equatorial and temperate regions and polar maps made from the Juno JunoCam and JIRAM polar images.

Juno's 12th perijove in lifelike color

Emily Lakdawalla • May 11, 2018 •

With the help of some preprocessing of JunoCam images by Mattias Malmer, Don Davis shows us how Jupiter might have looked on April 1, 2018, if we'd been aboard Juno.

Space grade electronics: How NASA’s Juno survives near Jupiter

Jatan Mehta • April 17, 2018 •

Take a look at how electronics of spacecraft are built to survive the harshness of space environments.

Diving into Juno JIRAM data archives

Björn Jónsson • April 11, 2018 •

The Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument can obtain images in two infrared bands. JIRAM can see the nightside of Jupiter (including the winter pole) and takes spectacular animations.

#LPSC2018: Groovy Galilean satellites

Harriet Brettle • March 30, 2018 •

The Jovian system is a busy place. The Groovy Galilean Satellites session at last week's Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) covered analysis of past mission data, testable hypotheses for future missions, and discussion of the use of ground-based data.

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