![]() ![]() I was contacted by the Juno staff, and step by step, my collaboration with the Jupiter observing community, and especially with the Juno team, intensified. The development turned out to be successful, and my image products drew attention. With those real-world data returned after Earth flyby by JunoCam, I had almost three years' time to develop more advanced software that would be able to convert raw JunoCam image data into photorealistic color images. So, working on the JunoCam image data didn't just appear to be interesting, but also relevant in a larger context. Some of my early Earth flyby image products even made it into NASA talks, including NASA's budget plan. Juno's Earth flyby opened the opportunity to work as closely as practically possible for members of the general public on an ongoing space mission. A few weeks before Juno's 2013 Earth flyby, he provided a simulated JunoCam test image, and I immediately saw that this project would be challenging and rewarding enough to spend more time with. His company provided cameras for Curiosity, as well as JunoCam for the Juno Jupiter probe. Emily Lakdawalla played a key role by pointing me to Unmanned, a project of The Planetary Society where amateurs are exposed to the mentality of the professional and amateur space community.Īfter following Curiosity's journey, and taking a close look at the data it returned, science team member Mike Caplinger at Malin Space Science Systems played another key role. I found The Planetary Society closely reporting about the mission. I noticed the Mars Curiosity rover landing on Mars in August 2012. Eventually, with the help of people more closely related to NASA, opportunities opened up, and I did what I could to make use of them. I was thinking of NASA, but I didn't seriously expect there would be any chance to get involved. I also wanted to be able to work independently to pursue the challenges per my interests. ![]() ![]() I was looking for interesting and significant challenges in science – especially space science – where a lot of mathematics and software engineering can be applied in a presumably responsible way. How did you become a NASA citizen scientist? ![]()
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