Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
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Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
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#2Looks like a painting. How cool is it that we actually have the technology to finally see these odd planets!?
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#3For one Hubble, something like a dozen of Keyhole spy telescopes have been launched [0]. Just imagine the kind of science we would have gotten if we launched a dozen of Hubbles instead...
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#4I would love to see an image like that combined with a depth map to allow us to move it around and get a sense of the vertical scale of those storms!
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#5For one Hubble, something like a dozen of Keyhole spy telescopes have been launched [0]. Just imagine the kind of science we would have gotten if we launched a dozen of Hubbles instead... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
So about the ratio of non-selfies to selfies.
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#6For one Hubble, something like a dozen of Keyhole spy telescopes have been launched [0]. Just imagine the kind of science we would have gotten if we launched a dozen of Hubbles instead... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen
Imagine if those satellites were never made, we wouldn't have had the Hubble space telescope either.
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#7It never occurred to me that the Great Red Spot would be shrinking. It's logical that storm systems are dynamic (and finite) things, but I find it striking that in another hundred years, people may never think of Jupiter as having such a dramatic feature. And who knows what new ones may have developed.
I suppose that's as much a commentary on how short a time we've been able to witness these phenomena as more than dots in the sky. Especially relative to the timescale they operate on.
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#8I wish they would send something like the Cassini spacecraft to Jupiter. Just gobs and gobs of eye candy until the sensor gets nuked to bits.
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#9Man, I'd love to be able to get a really high resolution print of this framed so I can hang it in my living room.
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#10It never occurred to me that the Great Red Spot would be shrinking. It's logical that storm systems are dynamic (and finite) things, but I find it striking that in another hundred years, people may never think of Jupiter as having such a dramatic feature. And who knows what new ones may have developed. I suppose that's as much a commentary on how short a time we've been able to witness these phenomena as more than do…
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