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by mikeash 3628 days ago
Juno's solar panels produce as much power at Jupiter as Galileo's RTGs did. The quality of this picture has nothing to do with solar power. It's a bad picture because Juno is on a highly elliptical orbit for reasons of efficiency and longevity (there's tons of radiation closer in) and this picture was taken when the probe was very far away.