Comment by jessriedel

I was glad to hear that Juno has a nice visible-light camera even though the it's not useful to the scientific mission. I'd prefer if 5-10% of equipment cost for spacecraft was always spent on popular-level pictures/video/sound. Studying details of the magnetic field of Jupiter is a good excuse to send a probe, and I'm glad there are a handful of scientists who devote their life to understanding it deeply, but we should acknowledge that those details will not provide benefit to 99% of the folks paying for it. (These missions can't be justified by the rearch; much more valuable science can be done on Earth for less money.)