Recent results from the imagery of Juno’s Stellar Reference Unit

<p>The Juno Mission has recast its spacecraft engineering star camera as a visible wavelength science imager. Developed and primarily used to support onboard attitude determination, Juno&#8217;s Stellar Reference Unit (SRU) has been put to use as an in situ high energy particle detector for profiling Jupiter&#8217;s radiation belts and as a low light sensitive camera for exploring multiple phenomena and features of the Jovian system. Juno&#8217;s unprecedented polar orbit and closest approach of ~4000 km have yielded high resolution SRU imagery of Jupiter&#8217;s lightning and aurorae from as little as 50,000 km from the 1 bar level and unique Jovian dust ring and satellite images. We will present recent SRU results and discuss the implications for Jupiter&#8217;s atmosphere that stem from the SRU lightning observations.</p>