Table 1.
Juno's Payload
Instrument name | Description | Ganymede science |
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Gravity | Doppler Radio Science (Asmar et al., 2017) | Ganymede gravity field and ionosphere |
Mag | Dual Fluxgate Magnetometers (Connerney et al., 2017) | Ganymede's dynamo field and magnetic field structure in Ganymede's magnetosphere |
MWR | Microwave Radiometer (Janssen et al., 2017) | Subsurface properties |
JEDI | Energetic Particle Detectors (Mauk et al., 2017) | Energetic charged particle flux and composition in Ganymede's magnetosphere |
JADE | Plasma Particle Detectors (McComas et al., 2017) | Plasma electron and ion distributions; ion composition in Ganymede's magnetosphere |
Waves | Radio and Plasma Waves (Kurth et al., 2017) | Radio emissions from, and plasma waves in, Ganymede's magnetosphere |
UVS | Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph (Gladstone et al., 2017) | Ganymede's aurora and surface albedo |
JIRAM | Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (Adriani et al., 2017) | High resolution surface composition |
JunoCam | Visible Color Imager (C. J. Hansen et al., 2017) | Day‐side images for surface geomorphology |
SRU | Stellar Reference Unit (Becker et al., 2017) | Night‐side image illuminated by Jupiter‐shine for surface geomorphology |
ASC | Advanced Stellar Compass (Connerney et al., 2017) | Energetic electron detection in the Jovian environment |