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JUYED-AWK-YACC t1_ireugah wrote

Reply to comment by Frank_Perfectly in New NASA Pic of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa Is the Most Detailed One Yet by ANTristotle

I worked Galileo, so been there done that. It's not a record altitude (200 km) and the image was taken with the star scanner, not a science instrument.

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volcanopele t1_iriqdi2 wrote

It’s also been almost 23 years since the last Galileo flyby of Europa. Yes, Galileo had higher resolution cameras, but Juno has things like MWR that can actually due ice-penetrating measurements.

While the SRU didn’t start out as a science instrument, it is officially one now in the extended mission. Higher resolution than JunoCAM and more sensitive so it can take pictures in Jupiter-shine that JunoCAM can’t really do.

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JUYED-AWK-YACC t1_irjm2cg wrote

I'm not saying this is a bad image. I know a lot of people onJuno and it's a worthwhile mission. I'm just reacting to the recency bias.

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