Voting

Juno is now in a 53-day orbit.  When it passes close to Jupiter (“PeriJove”
or “PJ”) we will take as many pictures as we can.  The number of pictures that we take is
limited by the amount of onboard data storage that we have for JunoCam, so we
have to be selective.  The images are
collected as we go from the north pole of Jupiter to the south pole, which
happens in a brief 2 hour portion of the orbit. 
On any given perijove pass we will only be able to image targets in a
narrow swath of territory the spacecraft flies over (“groundtrack”). 

Up through PJ8 everyone could vote on their favorite Point
of Interest (POI) and those rounds can be viewed here.  Changes in the orbit and mission plan mean
that we are no longer selecting targets by vote. 

There will still be a voting page for every orbit and we
will describe the specifics of each perijove pass such as the spacecraft orientation.  Because of the challenges to predict the
Points of Interest that will be in the JunoCam field of view we are now timing
the image collection by latitude. 

Target Selection

The target prioritization and selection process is ordinarily done by an imaging science team in a conference room or on a telecon.  Each scientist argues for their top candidates and says why they are important. 

In general we are holding back enough data volume for 2 polar images.  Occasionally we will also set aside some data volume for a unique image of a Galilean satellite.  All the rest of the data volume will be used to target images in the priority determined by the voting. 

You will be a participant in the discussions we would otherwise have off-line.  The Juno science team will be weighing in with their wishes, but they will have to advocate and convince you to vote for their favorites.  We are hoping that you enjoy being a part of this process, that you enjoy being a member of the JunoCam team. 

Voting Round :

PJ5 Encounter

CLOSED : 2017-03-20 16:00:00

Perijove on : 2017-03-27 08:53 UT

The entire perijove pass from the north pole to the south pole will be open for voting.  We will however set aside a larger portion of the data volume for polar time lapse sequences to see the circumpolar cyclones rotate. 

Perijove Predict Map

About Perijove Predict Maps

Every perijove pass we have the challenge of predicting where Points of Interest will be as the different zones of the planet have different wind velocities.  This map shows our effort to rotate the latitudinal zones with their different wind speeds to predict what will be under the Juno groundtrack. 

Winner Selection

Once again you have selected our targets!  We will be able to image 9 Points of Interest in the priority set by your votes. 

We started the process of generating image commands as soon as the voting closed.  We looked first at the predictions of what time an image would need to be taken to get a particular POI.  We have constraints on how closely together we can take images, because an image must be moved from the camera to the spacecraft computer before we take the next one.  That means if targets are closer together in time than 90 sec we combined them.  We took the time that corresponded to the higher priority target, but we will get the other POI's in the image. 

We then started planning images in priority order until we used up all the available data volume. 

The list of POI’s we will image in order of the votes they received is as follows, with the “+” indicating targets we combined:

We are also picking up Covenant 151016 as part of the polar timelapse sequence. 

These images will be available after we get "C kernels" which is a file with the spacecraft orientation as a function of time.  This data is necessary for us to process the data before we put it on the website.  It takes two days for us to get that data from the navigation team.  Perijove is on Monday, March 27, so we expect to start posting the images on Wednesday, March 29.