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Re: New images of Jupiter

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Post by beezlebroxxxxxx »

ohmahjong wrote: post #3

These kinds of images never fail to amaze me. I know there some editing going on to make them more visually accessible/impressive, but wow. Images are only going to get better, too.

It will be fascinating to see how the long running image of Jupiter, striated with a series of bands of distinct colour with a clear big "dot", will get replaced with more updated ones like this, chaotic, swirly, almost painterly in the ways the colours blend.

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Post by Ma8ee »

sidcool wrote: post #6

It's so scary! All those swirls are like planet size hurricanes. Had Jupiter been bigger, it would have been a star, and life on earth would not have existed. Gives me chills.

Anything that reminds me that we are living in an environment thin as an eggshell on a grain of sand surrounded by an infinite cold and deadly vacuum, punctuated by hellfires that would evaporate our hole planet if we got to close.

There are so preciously few places like Earth. How I wish more of us cared about it.

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Post by Aachen »

These come from Juno, a mission sent in 2011 and orbiting Jupiter since 2016. Must say it wasn't really on my radar anymore, but looking at the timeline on Wikipedia, it's still going around and getting close ("perijove") every month and a week or so, at an ever-increasing longitude https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)#Timeline The planned end of the mission is in about a year. The camera was "included in the payload to facilitate education and public outreach [but] later re-purposed to study the dynamics of Jupiter's clouds"

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Post by lm28469 »

quincunx wrote: post #9

Why is Jupiter so colorful? If the variation of color are indicative of a similar variation in density, why is there so much turbulence in Jupiter, why are the upper layers not more consistent? Tidal motion? Anyone know?

You can assume almost every space images you see are "false colors" unless stated otherwise

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/jupiter-in-true-and-false-...

https://www.cnet.com/science/space/why-nasas-image-of-jupite...

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Post by vasco »

Ma8ee wrote: post #22
sidcool wrote: post #6

It's so scary! All those swirls are like planet size hurricanes. Had Jupiter been bigger, it would have been a star, and life on earth would not have existed. Gives me chills.

Anything that reminds me that we are living in an environment thin as an eggshell on a grain of sand surrounded by an infinite cold and deadly vacuum, punctuated by hellfires that would evaporate our hole planet if we got to close. There are so preciously few places like Earth. How I wish more of us cared about it.

It doesn't care about us, and we don't need to "care" for it, it's going to be fine without us. What we don't do is care for ourselves, which is what you're really saying, self-preservation. The earth doesn't give two shits if it's 50 degrees warmer. You can't even say it's to protect life, because some forms of life will do way better in a warmer planet too. The universe / nature is gnarly already, much more than we can ever be, and plus, whatever we do, we're nature too. So in a way you're saying nature doesn't care for itself.

Re: New images of Jupiter

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

Juno was something about radar - penetrating the cloud layers to see what was below.

In college my son worked on the FFT engine that processed the radar data. He has code circling Jupiter!

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