JunoCam, The People’s Jupiter Camera

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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The Juno spacecraft will enter orbit at Jupiter on July 4th. It carries a camera that will send back spectacular images from just above the swirling clouds of that mighty planet. Planetary scientist Candy Hansen will tell us how we can help decide what it will view.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Citizens Camera goes to Jupiter this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier. I'm at Kaplan
0:16.2	at the Planetary Society. Kandy Hansen's biggest job on the Juno Mission
0:20.8	is the Juno Cam camera that will take pictures of what we the people think it should.
0:27.0	She'll tell us what to expect.
0:28.7	Bill Nye has the week off.
0:30.3	Bruce Betts is sounding kind of sterile on this week's What's Up segment.
0:34.0	Stay tuned if you want to know what I mean.
0:36.0	Senior editor Emily Loch Wala has written a comprehensive guide to JunoCam.
0:41.0	It's her June 9th blog post at planetary.org. I'd ask her about it, but we've got
0:46.6	candy. So let's talk about your even more recent post, these two videos that you did while you were on the road tell us about them well these
0:55.1	are two videos of public talks that I've given or at least talks to large
0:58.5	audiences and it's kind of interesting they're sort of two endpoints of the kind of
1:02.2	talks I give one of them was to my 20th college reunion at
1:07.7	Amherst College, which of course involved reunions of many many other classes
1:11.9	and also the children of people coming back for reunions of many, many other classes and also the children of people coming back for
1:14.8	reunions.
1:15.8	So I made that talk be very general in its approach and hopefully appeal to a wide audience.
1:20.7	And then the other talk was to an audience of professionals at the Space
1:23.3	Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. And these are both
1:27.1	posted of course at planetary.org. You can get to them from Emily's blog or from
1:32.3	our show page this week at planetary.org
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