Since Jupiter is surrounded by a very harsh radiation environment, there were somewhat more cosmic rays in this image than in typical Pluto system images. I removed these using a software filter that identifies likely cosmic rays and patches them using the average of surrounding pixels. After this, I up-sampled the image resolution by a factor of two. Normally, this would not gain you anything in terms of image sharpness, but because we understand the properties of MVIC images fairly well now, I could deconvolve this up-sampled image using the known MVIC methane-channel point-spread function and achieve a real improvement in image resolution.

The resulting 6750-by-4500 pixel image reveals many subtle details in the patterns of Jupiter’s clouds. I will be re-processing some of the other data from the Jupiter flyby, and hope to update the successful full-color scans of Jupiter with similar techniques.