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New images of Jupiter

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youtubeuser ◴[] No.42063478[source]
Maybe silly question, but why are the pictures cropped?
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1. dr_orpheus ◴[] No.42064480[source]
Not a silly question. I don't think the images are actually cropped. JunoCam is described as a "push broom" imager [0]. The camera takes pictures as the spacecraft turns. So it's more like you are looking at a stitched together panorama and not a cropped version of a larger image.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JunoCam#Design