Perijove Passage
Explanation:
On May 19, the Juno spacecraft once again swung by Jupiter in its
looping 53 day orbit around the Solar System's ruling gas gaint.
Beginning at the top, this vertical
14 frame
sequence of enhanced-color
JunoCam images
follows the spacecraft's rapidly changing perspective during
its two hour passage.
They
look down on Jupiter's
north polar region, equatorial, and south polar region
(bottom images).
With the field-of-view shrinking, the seventh and eighth images
in the sequence are close-up.
Taken only 4 minutes apart above Jupiter's equator they were
captured just before the
spacecraft
reached perijove 6, its closest approach to Jupiter on
this orbit.
Final
images in the sequence pick up
white oval storm systems,
Jupiter's "String of Pearls", and the south polar region
from the outward bound spacecraft.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
