Vincent Hue : Exploration of Jupiter’s UV emission with Nasa’s Juno mission

The Juno mission offers a unique opportunity to study Jupiter, from its inner structure to its magnetospheric environment. Juno-UVS is a UV spectrograph with a bandpass of 70<λ<205 nm, designed to characterize Jupiter’s UV emissions, which are produced when the Jovian magnetospheric electrons and ions precipitate and collide Jupiter’s upper atmosphere. One of the main feature of UVS is its scan mirror, which allows targeting specific UV features that are located +/- 30˚ perpendicular to the Juno spin plane. Juno provides a unique vantage point in Jupiter’s system to perform observations otherwise not possible from Earth. In this seminar, I will present Juno’s main scientific objectives and present results regarding the magnetospheric science obtained from the Jupiter orbital insertion (4^th July 2016) up to Perijove 7 (11^th July 2017).