The imager may have been an afterthought, but it sounds like they didn't skimp: It'll provide ultra HD 4K images.

I haven't been interested in upgrading to a 4K display because of the lack of content. Now, anticipating being able to look down into the clouds of Jupiter at extremely high resolutions...now I just may have a reason.

I think my fascination is because I've seen it in my mind's eye so many times, reading so many science fiction stories that take place at Jupiter. In real life we've focused on the moons but neglected study of Jupiter itself; but in sci-fi, authors keep coming back to imagine looking into the clouds, and descending into the clouds, and trying to describe in words an environment of world-sized clouds and canyons and eddies, and winds of many thousands of miles an hour.

And hydrogen-breathing continent-sized "whales" and other fancies, but that would be too much to ask. I'd be happy with clouds.

Pretty soon, we'll get to take our own close up look. For real.

This isn't the first time a camera was added as an afterthought to a robot probe. Scientists get a funny kind of tunnel vision, they have the imaginations to see an entire world through the one instrument they've built and operated. That keyhole view is enough for a scientist, but the rest of us need to see the whole wondrous world with our own eyes.

Juno has the potential to be another great mission of space exploration. NASA does indeed rock!