The Story of Data: Unexpected Data Discoveries from Juno

Every piece of data captured by Juno’s instruments is transmitted back to Earth and analyzed by the Spacecraft Operations team and the Science instrument teams. Those datasets are then passed to the entire Juno Science team, for use in understanding what is going on in and around Jupiter. Juno’s observations often reveal unexpected discoveries, forever changing us and our understanding of giant planets.

“The key is recognizing something you don’t understand in your data, and drilling down on that to discover things that you never anticipated when you set out to do this job.” — Jack Connerney, Deputy Principal Investigator & Magnetometer Investigation Lead, GSFC

Team Members: Heidi Becker, Scott Bolton, Jack Connerney, Matt Johnson, Paul Steffes, Marla Thornton

Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI

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