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RE: Studying Jupiter's Atmosphere from Earth
Let us hope they get more mission data. Incidentally, JUNO are requesting more images from amateurs particularly in the next 72 hours. It's also cool to be able to make (even if small) contributions to space missions!
Why is that? What do they want to coroborate?
For planning observations primarily, amateurs can give them a broad idea of what is happening in the atmosphere as JUNO pass perijove on May 24 (closest approach). I believe they are planning observations using the VLT in Chile, but they have a limited time window that they can observe Jupiter.
Presumably, amateurs can help fill in gaps. From this side of the world I know Anthony Wesley (Australia) and Chris Go (Philippines) make high resolution images of Jupiter perhaps 2-3x inferior to Hubble. These guys are both amateur astronomers.
There is quite a lot of pro-am cooperation with astronomy.