How Juno's Camera Works - Taking The Best Pictures of Jupiter

It's been a year since Juno arrive in Jupiter orbit and while it's been doing some great science on its mission to understand Jupiter's interior, the general public has primarly seen the images from the Junocam 'public outreach' instrument.
It's worth explaining exactly how this instrument works because it's quite different from a regular camera.

[rjblaskiewicz]

Some of my favorite astrophotography ever has come out of this mission already. It's stunning.

[Astlaus]

This must be the best channel on YT. I started watching telling myself "what interesting can be there about JunoCam"... whew, mind blown, it's way more complicated than I imagined. Great job, Scott.

[insederec]

I had no idea Jupiter was so beautiful, or that the poles were so colorful. Amazing images.

[pugfugly]

I've been heavily invested in JUNO since it reached Jupiter last summer. I'm a musician, and I wrote an entire album by using a certain algorithm to turn the data being returned into music. The stuff the probe is sending us is pretty amazing, despite a few set backs with some of the experiments.

[tuulofdstrxn]

Jupiter's poles look like Van Gogh's Starry Night!

[andrewchiarello]

It is still funny how NASA sent Juno(Jupiter's wife) to scan Jupiter and its moons, which NASA has named after Jupiter's affairs and lovers.

[felcas]

5:04 MY GOD JUPITER IS A GINORMOUS BEING! WITH MOUTH AND EYES

[countertony]

Time-delay integration is really useful in X-ray tomography for research (quantitative CT scanning), particularly when you care about precisely how dense each bit of the stuff you're scanning is. If you move the X-ray camera from one side to the other in the plane of rotation, and clock the CCD slowly to match that speed, you can smear out all the little differences in how sensitive the detector elements are and remove a source of error without blurring the actual signal.

[Kai-bmue]

last time I was this early scott had hair

[TacDyne]

I always love when a planet's poles are revealed in great detail. The geometric shapes that show up in them are simply beautiful.

[Sam-lroi]

Woooow that shot of the entire polar region is amazing. The whole planet has a very floral look about it, absolutely incredible.

[TheChach]

jovey mcjupiterface is a fantastic name

[blackhat]

Fantastic Video. Loved the description of how the probe works and the set up/operation of the camera system.

[nickp]

Man, Jupiter is actually really beautiful.

[hannabelphaege]

Jupiter has an area where a storm larger than out planet has been raging for 350+ years. How did I not know this.

[NefariousKoel]

Watched the Juno flyby composite pic-vid (named Perijove 6 Flyby) back in May. It is amazing. Suggested viewing! Also gives an impression of how incredibly fast it is going while taking pictures going through it's periapsis.

[MrRolnicek]

There are poles on Jupiter?
It is true!
Poland CAN into space!!!

[Renegade]

Loving the hardcore psytrance there Scott!

[boothardt]

Love the rich blue of the poles. Space is so awesome

[IbakonFerba]

6:59 that is BEAUTIFUL! That looks like something Vincent VanGogh would paint