Processing JunoCam Images

If you know where to look, you can find more space image data than you’d ever know what to do with. Some are easily accessible and others are trickier because of the file formats and needing to know things like DOS, Unix and/or FTP commands.

JunoCam is the easiest to get to and play with. The great thing is that there is no single correct way to process an image. They leave it open to however you want to do it. If you want to bring out certain colors or try to match true color, the choice is yours. People have done some really amazing things with the data, including making animations of the flybys.

 

I would write up a post about how to process the images but here is a tutorial (mind you this isn’t the only way to go about it)

I’ve taken to trying out using the raw image data as opposed to the slightly more processed files that come with the image set. The resolution is much higher

People do truly incredible things with these images: