You may recall that there is a citizen science program involved with NASA’s Juno spacecraft and run by Planetary Science Institute senior scientist Candy Hansen. For this program, everyone is invited to download the raw images taken with the JunoCam imager onboard the spacecraft and process them to their hearts’ delight. We’ve seen true color renders, highly stylized variations, and everything in between.

Now, with Juno making flybys of some of Jupiter’s moons, we’re even getting to see shadows on the surface of Jupiter. In an image processed from Juno’s fortieth flyby, citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created an enhanced-color image of the gas giant with the shadow of Ganymede seen on the cloud tops. You can see the full image in our show notes at DailySpace.org, where we will also have a link to the image processing website.

Go forth and make science art!

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