Juno and its shitty camera

>>8632243
Why don't they just launch a cutting-edge USA spy satellite into a low parking orbit around every body in the solar system? Those things have the resolution to read a newspaper from orbit. They could take some sick-ass pictures of clouds and rocks.

Space is extremely harsh for cameras, especially high tech modern ones. The shielding necessary to protect a modern camera adds enough mass to the mission that it's just not feasible if it's not the primary mission of the craft (and it never is).

>>8632243
They should have used an iPhone. Best camera on the market.

>>8632288
What about Cassini then

No matter how much science advances, there will always be a retard like OP finding a reason to complain.

>>8632293
What about it? It was a square CCD 1024 pixels on a side. The Juno camera is better.

>>8632296
So then why are Cassini's images so incredible comapred to what we have from Juno so far

>>8632328
In terms of image quality they're not.

>>8632243
And what makes it shit?

Also the camera is only there for public outreach purposes, it's not part of the science it's doing on this mission.

In addition, due to Jupiter's intense radiation, the camera is only expected to last until January 11th 2017

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JunoCam

>>8632474
Just think about how big Jupiter is, and how much dimension it has. Just focusing the camera alone to take a high quality image of the entire surface is incredibly difficult.

>>8632474
>>8632493
Sorry anon, should have replied that to OP's post. Had a bit of a dense moment there.

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>>8632474
>January 11th 2017
So it's already dead, then.

What a pity. Would've loved a look at Ganymede and Io.