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Very cool! Thanks!
Another thank you for linking that; those pictures are freaking fantastic.
Wow, don’t have anything to add, just wow.
Beautiful. The pictures over the north and south pole are amazing! It doesn’t look natural though. It looks like contemporary art.
Wow.
Stunning.
Gorgeous photo’s thanks!
Interesting that Jupiter doesn’t have the hexagonal standing-wave cloud pattern that is found at Saturn’s north pole.
I remember reading a science-fiction book (but one based on real known science) as a child where the narrator went around the solar system describing how strange and interesting information that was being found out the planets in the solar system. It was an outdated book even then and all the time since every time we look we find more and more interesting things.
It really blows my mind when people can’t see the value of space exploration.
Fascinating and beautiful. I especially liked the picture with the “face”.
Really fantastic stuff – I love having access to information like this! Thank you so much for sharing it.
Eh, they’re “okay”.
Excellent. I want some to hang on my wall. Reminds me of Starry Night.
How accurate are the colors? And how do we know they’re accurate? It’s something I’ve always wanted to know…
I believe they’re accurate. NASA always notes if an image is shown in false colors to better show contrasts, for instance. And the probe’s cameras were, I assume, finely calibrated before launch.
[shrug] It’s only a model.
Seriously, they’re very impressive, thanks. Remembering the slightly blurry pics I used to see in the 80s, it’s hardly the Jupiter I used to know.
Fantastic! Some of them look a bit like early Jackson Pollack paintings.
What it reminds me of a bit is when you blow a soap bubble and, if it hits the light right, you can see all sorts of weird swirlies on the surface. Something like this.
There’s no such thing as “true color” professional astronomical photographs. The cameras themselves are all black-and-white (fundamentally, that’s true of all cameras, even the ones you use), but take multiple images through multiple filters. If you want to produce images that correspond with what humans see, then you pick those filters to correspond to red, green, and blue, or some other approximation to what our eyes process. For scientific purposes, though, you’d pick filters that correspond to the spectral lines of particular elements or compounds. You can map those filters to red, green, and blue to make a picture a human can see, and they usually choose the mapping in such a way that is as close an approximation as possible to what the filters are actually detecting, but it’s still an approximation. There’s no reason you couldn’t put the same kind of filters on an astronomical instrument as on a consumer camera, but every gram of weight and every second of observing time matters, so in practice, they don’t.
I was thinking the same thing. It looks like Van Gogh designed the planet.
This is the Pollack I was specifically thinking of. Just before he ventured into drip-painting. (Don’t get me wrong, I love his drip paintings, but the Jupiter photos look more like that mural.)