Mission Overview
Wide Field Coverage for Juno (WFCJ)
Primary Investigator: Michael H. Wong
Contributing Program PIs: Imke de Pater, Amy A. Simon
HLSP Authors: Michael H. Wong, Andrew I. Hsu, Megan N. Barnett, Joshua W. Tollefson, Charles Goullaud, Amy A. Simon, Andrew W. Stephens, Glenn S. Orton, Troy K. Tsubota
Released: 29 June 2017
Updated: 31 August 2023
Primary Reference(s): Wong et al. (2020)
DOI: 10.17909/T94T1H
Citations: See ADS Statistics
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Multi-Wavelength Composite Images Of Jupiter
Multi-wavelength composite images of Jupiter give context for Juno observations. Microwave Radiometer footprints at the intrument's highest (green color) and lowest (blue color) frequencies are shown. LEFT: pseudo-true color appearance (contrast-enhanced), TOP-RIGHT: Near-UV ultraviolet, BOTTOM-RIGHT: Methane-band imaging (relative heights of hazes).
Zonal Winds For PJ3
Zonal winds for PJ3 in yellow, shown on a global map for comparison. White tick marks at the equator show where prograde (eastward) speeds are -50, 0, +50, +100, and +150 m/s.
Overview
The Wide Field Coverage for Juno (WFCJ) program is synchronized with perijove passes of the NASA Juno mission. "Perijove" is the close-approach atmospheric overflight of Juno during its highly eccentric orbit. The Juno spacecraft orbit allows microwave and infrared scans of the atmosphere from a vantage point inside the planet's intense radiation belts. Although Juno is equipped with a visible wavelength public-outreach camera (JunoCam), the proximity to Jupiter during the perijove passes means that Juno itself cannot obtain regional-scale or global-scale imaging data to provide context for its own observations. The WFCJ program fills this gap with WFC3/UVIS imaging data. Some perijoves are covered by a single orbit of HST imaging ("snapshot" coverage), while other perijoves have broader longitude coverage ("global" coverage). Observing for two rotations allows the measurement of the speed of Jupiter's wind jets, which vary with latitude: the zonal wind profile (ZWP).
Juno's first perijove passes happened when Jupiter was too close to the Sun to be observed by Hubble. Perijove 3 (PJ3) was the first observable science pass, featuring global coverage.
Data Products
The data are organized by sub-directory based on the perijove number they belong to. Each file name follows the formula described below. Each epoch is differentiated by a calendar year and a perijove designation, e.g., "jupiter-2016pj03" is for perijove 3 during 2016.
hlsp_wfcj_<obs>_<ins>_jupiter-<yyyy>-pj<num>_<filter>_v1_<time>-<ext>
where:
- <obs> is the observatory, "hst" or "gemini"
- <ins> is the science instrument, either "wfc3-uvis" (WFC3/UVIS) or "niri" (NIRI)
- <yyyy> is the year
- <num> is a two- or three-character value, containing the two-digit, zero-padded Perijove Number. An optional sequence letter (e.g., "b") may be added to indicate data from epochs that were observed in between perijoves, such as OPAL program observations or NRAO time exchange observations.
- <filter> is the filter(s) used. A value of "all" indicates the file is valid for all filters, as for the readme file.
- <time> gives detailed timing info for individual frames, or approximate midpoint times for Gemini mosaics, written as <ddmm>ut<hhmm>. For WFC3 cylindrical map mosaics or polar mosaics, <time> is "rot1", "rot2", etc. for separate Jupiter rotations. The separate rotations may or may not be consecutive.
- <ext> is the type of data product
Complete example file names are:
hlsp_wfcj_hst_wfc3-uvis_jupiter-2016-pj03_fq727n_v1_rot1-globalmap.fits
hlsp_wfcj_gemini_niri_jupiter-2016-pj03_mprime_v1_1214ut1520-mosiac.fits
Data file types:
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†Footprints are for the MWR instrument (Janssen et al. 2017 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-017-0349-5>). If necessary, footprints have been advected by the zonal wind field to compensate for east/west drift of atmospheric features during the time interval between Juno and HST/Gemini observations.
Data Access
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Link Text = Click to download products or visit webpage with links to products.
Note: Polar files can be found in the Global and Snapshot webpages.
Note 2: PJ11 has Global files for Rotation 2 only, and thus both the global and snapshot files are combined into a single page.
Note 3: Users wishing to apply current time-dependent WFC3/UVIS photometry may consult README files for PJs 3-22 (which were processed with outdated photometric information) for a workaround.
| Perijove Number | First Obs. Date (UT, YYYY-MM-DD) | Map/Image Data (click links to load tables) | Zonal Winds (click links to download files) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2016-12-11 | WFC3 Global | NIRI 5-μm | ASCII | FITS |
| 3b | 2017-01-11 | WFC3 Global | NIRI 5-μm | ASCII | FITS |
| 4 | 2017-02-02 | WFC3 Global | NIRI 5-μm | ASCII | FITS |
| 5 | 2017-03-27 | WFC3 Snapshot | |
| 6 | 2017-05-19 | WFC3 Snapshot | NIRI 5-μm | |
| 7 | 2017-07-11 | WFC3 Snapshot | NIRI 5-μm | |
| 11 | 2018-02-07 | WFC3 Global + Snapshot | |
| 12 | 2018-04-01 | WFC3 Global | NIRI 5-μm | ASCII | FITS |
| 13 | 2018-05-24 | WFC3 Snapshot | NIRI 5-μm | |
| 14 | 2018-07-16 | WFC3 Snapshot | NIRI 5-μm | |
| 15 | 2018-09-07 | WFC3 Snapshot | |
| 18 | 2019-02-12 | WFC3 Snapshot | |
| 19 | 2019-04-06 | WFC3 Global | NIRI 5-μm | ASCII | FITS |
| 20 | 2019-05-29 | NIRI 5-μm | |
| 21 | 2019-07-21 | WFC3 Snapshot | |
| 22 | 2019-09-12 | WFC3 Snapshot | |
| 26 | 2020-04-11 | Delivered to MAST, Ingest Underway... | |
| 27 | 2020-06-02 | Delivered to MAST, Ingest Underway... | |
| 28 | 2020-07-23 | Delivered to MAST, Ingest Underway... | |
| 29 | 2020-09-15 | Delivered to MAST, Ingest Underway... |