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IMAGE PROCESSING GALLERY

Welcome! PJ–1 Images Gallery Organization About JunoCam Images
Welcome!
This is where we post raw images from JunoCam. We invite you to download them, do your own image processing, and we encourage you to upload your creations for us to enjoy and share. The types of image processing we’d love to see range from simply cropping an image to highlighting a particular atmospheric feature, as well as adding your own color enhancements, creating collages and adding advanced color reconstruction.

One of the biggest challenges for Juno is Jupiter's intense radiation belts, which are expected to limit the lifetime of both Juno’s engineering and science subsystems. JunoCam is now showing the effects of that radiation on some of its parts.  PJ56 images show a reduction in our dynamic range and an increase in background and noise. We invite citizen scientists to explore new ways to process these images to continue to bring out the beauty and mysteries of Jupiter and its moons.

For those of you who have contributed – thank you! Your labors of love have illustrated articles about Juno, Jupiter and JunoCam. Your products show up in all sorts of places.  We have used them to report to the scientific community. We are writing papers for scientific journals and using your contributions – always with appropriate attribution of course. Some creations are works of art and we are working out ways to showcase them as art.
PJ–1 Images
The first perijove pass of Jupiter was a test run for JunoCam. The set of 28 images taken were designed to find optimal viewing geometries and camera settings. For example, we took 4 images of the north pole. We used two different settings for the time-delayed-integration (TDI), which determines the integration time, to see which would be best for the polar region and a very high TDI level (long exposure) to try to detect Jupiter’s aurora. We imaged at two different geometries, looking directly down at the pole and looking at closest range at a more oblique angle, to see which would give us the best results. We ran through a similar set of tests for the south pole. Another comparison we made was to test different compression settings.

We have a methane filter, included for the polar science investigation, that is almost at the limits of our detector’s wavelength range. To get enough photons for an image we need to use a very long exposure. In some images this results in scattered light in the image.  For science purposes we will simply crop out the portions of the image that include this artifact. Work is in progress to determine exactly what conditions cause stray light problems so that this can be minimized for future imaging.
Gallery Organization
The gallery displays images from JunoCam itself, as well as uploads from the community. 

The JunoCam images are identified by a small spacecraft icon. You will see both raw and processed versions of the images as they become available. The JunoCam movie posts have too many images to post individually, so we are making  them available for download in batches as zip files.

You can filter the gallery by many different characteristics, including by Perijove Pass, Points of Interest and Mission Phase. If you have a favorite “artist” you can create your own gallery.  Click on “Submitted by” on the left, select your favorite artist(s), and then click on “Filter”.

A special note about the Earth Flyby mission phase images: these were acquired in 2013 when Juno flew past Earth. Examples of processed images are shown; most contributions are from amateurs.
About JunoCam Images
Like previous MSSS cameras (e.g., Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Mars Color Imager) Junocam is a "pushframe" imager. The detector has multiple filter strips, each with a different bandpass, bonded directly to its photoactive surface. Each strip extends the entire width of the detector, but only a fraction of its height; Junocam's filter strips are 1600 pixels wide and about 155 rows high. The filter strips are scanned across the target by spacecraft rotation. At the nominal spin rate of 2 RPM, frames are acquired about every 400 milliseconds. Junocam has four filters: three visible (red/green/blue) and a narrowband "methane" filter centered at about 890 nm. 

The spacecraft spin rate would cause more than a pixel's worth of image blurring for exposures longer than about 3.2 milliseconds. For the illumination conditions at Jupiter such short exposures would result in unacceptably low SNR, so the camera provides Time-Delayed-Integration (TDI). TDI vertically shifts the image one row each 3.2 milliseconds over the course of the exposure, cancelling the scene motion induced by rotation. Up to about 100 TDI steps can be used for the orbital timing case while still maintaining the needed frame rate for frame-to-frame overlap. For Earth Flyby the light levels are high enough that TDI is not needed except for the methane band and for nightside imaging.  

Junocam pixels are 12 bits deep from the camera but are converted to 8 bits inside the instrument using a lossless "companding" table, a process similar to gamma correction, to reduce their size.  All Junocam products on the missionjuno website are in this 8-bit form as received on Earth.  Scientific users interested in radiometric analysis should use the "RDR" data products archived with the Planetary Data System, which have been converted back to a linear 12-bit scale.

We invite you to download raw JunoCam images posted here and do your own image processing on them. Be creative! Anything from cropping to color enhancing to collaging is fair game. Then upload your creations here.

Please refrain from direct use of any official NASA or Juno mission logos in your work, as this confuses what is officially sanctioned by NASA and by the Juno Project.

We ask that you refrain from posting any patently offensive, political, or inappropriate images. Let’s keep it clean and fun for everyone of any age! Remember, this section is moderated so inappropriate content will be rejected. But creativity and curiosity in the scientific spirit and the adventure of space exploration is highly encouraged and we look forward to seeing Jupiter through not only JunoCam’s eyes, but your own. Have at it!

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Psychedelic Egg
credit : Rinaldo Branquinho (Image Editing)
Relief representation of surface movements - perijove 18
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos
Relief representation of surface movements - perijove 18
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Thomas Thomopoulos
PJ18 Great Red Spot Outbound
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik
Jupiter PJ18 Great Red Spot Outbound
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik
PJ18 Jet N4 2019-02-12 17:25 UT
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS / Thomas Thomopoulos
PJ18 Great Red Spot outbound 2019-02-12 17:59 UT
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS / Thomas Thomopoulos
Great Red Spot version of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
credit : NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Navaneeth Krishnan S
Great red spot - Artistic view
credit : NASA/SwRI/MSSS/Navaneeth Krishnan S
Jupiter fresco
credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
PJ18 JET N6 2019-02-12 17:20 UT
credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
PJ18 JET N4 2019-02-12 17:25 UT
credit : Thomas Thomopoulos
When Mars revolving around Jupiter
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Navaneeth Krishnan S
PJ18 Jupiter Image Collage, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_45 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_35 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_33 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_32 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_31 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18_29 Crop, Exaggerated Color/Contrast
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18 Great Red Spot outbound - Color Enhanced and Enlarged
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Navaneeth Krishnan S
TURBULENT VORTICES AND JETS
credit : Luis Zavala Sansón
Artisically enhanced view of Jupiter's clouds
credit : Paul Gleave
Jupiter, Perijove 18 Composite
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Cold Jets
credit : Hubert
Angry deity
credit : Hubert
Details of a Storm close up!
credit : Ryan Cornell
Oblique Red Storm
credit : Ryan Cornell
Secret corners of closest approach
credit : Ryan Cornell
Lightning seen during daylight!
credit : Ryan Cornell
GRS
credit : NASA/SwRI/MSSS/GaryMarshall
PJ18 Equirectangular composition
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
Juno & Europa Clipper teamwork
credit : Franck Olaya
Jupiter Fly-under Time-lapse | 360° VR, 8K, 60FPS | JunoCam PJ18
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
PJ18 Great Red Spot Outbound - First Processing Effort
credit : Max Corneau - AstroDad
"High Clouds" Circling the Deep Blue
credit : Lanny Miller
Jupiter's Beady Eye
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
Stretched Time Lapse
credit : Lanny MillerJ
Eye in the Sky
credit : Cody Kuiack
Differentiation of clouds through colors
credit : Vitor Queiróz
Juno
credit : RedHeat
Jupiter up-close!
Thabet_UAE
JNCE_2019043_18C00043_V01-mapprojected Revisited
credit : JNCE_2019043_18C00043_V01-mapprojected
Just a Robot
credit : Red Tuby
Red Spot Highlighted
credit : Vitor Queiróz
JupiterusBlomix
credit : Blomis2019
Jovial
credit : Red Tuby
PJ18 Southern Timelapse Sequence
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik
PJ18 Great Red Spot Outbound
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik
"One Eye Raised"
credit : David Marriott
Reprocessed Jet N4
credit : David Marriott
PJ18_31_GE_Detail002b_2k
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
The Great Red Pepperoni
Koyamachuya-65
PJ18, southern circumpolar cyclones 40 minutes forth and 40 minutes back, displayed together in 0.8 seconds
credit : NASA / JPL /SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt
jupiter_OwO
credit : Matthew
PJ18: Northern hemisphere mosaic (enhanced)
credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson
PJ18: Northern hemisphere mosaic (true color)
credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson
credit : David Marriott
Jet N4
credit : Emma Wälimäki
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Hot spot
credit : Emma Wälimäki
North
credit : Emma Wälimäki
credit : Wintje
The Great Red Spot Outbound
credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / AstroHD
GRS
credit : NASA/JUNO/Joaquin camarena
S4 and GRS
credit : NASA/JUNO/Joaquin Camarena
PJ18, northern circumpolar cyclones, stacked, heavily processed
credit : NASA / JPL /SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt
Juno's Perijove-18 Jupiter Flyby, Reconstructed in 125-Fold Time-Lapse
credit : Credit: NASA / JPL / SwRI / MSSS / SPICE / Gerald Eichstädt
credit : David Marriott
PJ18 Great Red Spot mosaic (equatorial view)
credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson
PJ18: Great Red Spot area mosaic (true color)
credit : NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson
Jupiter - PJ18-42/45/49
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Little red spot and white swirl (Jet S4)
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Great Red Spot Outbound
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Equatorial Zone south
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Equatorial Zone north
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Flows west of the Great Red Spot, PJ18
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
Great Red Spot
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Great Red Spot
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Great Red Spot
credit : Emma Wälimäki
JetN 2
credit : Emma Wälimäki
credit : David Marriott
credit : David Marriott
credit : David Marriott
credit : David Marriott
credit : David Marriott
Jupiter, Perijove 18 Composite
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
North Equatorial Belt
credit : Emma Wälimäki
credit : Emma Wälimäki
North Temperate Belt
credit : Emma Wälimäki
Great Red Spot, Perijove 18
credit : NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
South Equatorial Belt Turbulence
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Justin Cowart
Great Red Spot
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Justin Cowart
Great Red Spot and South Equatorial Belt
credit : NASA / SwRI / Gerald Eichstädt / Justin Cowart
JET N4 and Barge
credit : NASA/JUNO/JOAQUIN CAMARENA
PJ18_31_GE_4k
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
PJ18_31_GE_crop_2k
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
PJ18_31_GE_Detail001_2k
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
PJ18_31_GE_Detail002_2k
credit : NASA / SwRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Seán Doran
A bit of PJ18 Northern Timelapse Sequence
credit : Cody Kuiack
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