Ganymede Observations by JunoCam on Juno Perijove 34

Geophys Res Lett. 2022 Dec 16;49(23):e2022GL099211. doi: 10.1029/2022GL099211. Epub 2022 Dec 12.

Abstract

During the Juno Mission's encounter with Ganymede on 7 June 2021, the Juno camera (JunoCam) acquired four images of Ganymede in color. These images covered one-sixth of Ganymede at scales from 840 m to ∼4 km/pixel. Most of this area was only previously imaged by Voyager 1 in 1979, at lower spatial resolution and poorer image quality. No changes were observed over this area of Ganymede in the 42 years since Voyager. JunoCam provided overlapping coverage, from which we developed a digital elevation model of the best-resolved area. A 3 km high dome at the subjovian point was confirmed, 450 km by 750 km. We used the JunoCam images to refine the geologic map of Ganymede in eastern Perrine Regio.

Keywords: Ganymede; Juno; JunoCam; geology; topography.