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The renderings are amazing looking! It makes Jupiter looks like an evil planet.
I think that's the fault of the infrared thing.
One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball. Edit: I digged de…
Not an interesting coincidence. Jupiter is hot but Mars gets named fire. Mercury looks like rock (thin atmosphere) but Saturn get called rock. You could find some reason to make almost any naming seem like a coincidence.
One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball. Edit: I digged de…
And arguably stunted progression from them. But that's getting off topic.
Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.
Better question might be what's the largest feasible (or likely) potentially habitable planet with earth-like gravity.
Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.
>And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there. Space travel would probably be more advanced by now.
Sometimes I wonder how different our world might be if it were the size of Jupiter but at the surface still had the same gravity we have now. It could take days to download something from the other side of the planet. And probably a month of airplane travel just to get there.
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Those aren't renderings, they are composite images made from photographs taken of Jupiter using an infrared camera on the Juno spacecraft.
What word would you use for composite false-color images produced by a computer if not "renderings"?
edit: Wikipedia defines photography as "the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material [...]
It could fit
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those aren't renderings, they are composite images made from photographs taken of Jupiter using an infrared camera on the Juno spacecraft.
What word would you use for composite false-color images produced by a computer if not "renderings"?
I would call this a 'composite image.'
One thing that might not be related but I found fascinating is that Jupiter is “木星” in Chinese, where “木” means wooden. The first time “木星” was mentioned in Chinese literature was in 东汉, year 25 - year 220 (around 1800 years ago). So Chinese people back then thought the planet was made of wood! And as a child, this planet has the name easiest to remember, because it looks exactly like a wooden ball. Edit: I digged de…
Not an interesting coincidence. Jupiter is hot but Mars gets named fire. Mercury looks like rock (thin atmosphere) but Saturn get called rock. You could find some reason to make almost any naming seem like a coincidence.