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[–] Sir_Kevin 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any details/source on this?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Found the NASA page

This image shows Jupiter's south pole, as seen by NASA's Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers). The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter. Multiple images taken with the JunoCam instrument on three separate orbits were combined to show all areas in daylight, enhanced color, and stereographic projection.

JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.

More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.

[–] Cform 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's so blue.

Like, I know it's not news. And I know in "true color" it's closer to grey. But Jupiter was not blue when I was a kid. It's just so much more colorful. So much more going on. so much more dynamic and complicated.

I cannot comprehend how anyone could ever think sending probes out to take pictures is a waste of money, even ignoring all the real and applicable science that can come from it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if it's not a true color photo and they added the blue for informational display reasons, then the blueness of this photo isn't really a meaningful part of it to get excited about. (Sorry to be a downer.)

With that said, this photo IS something to get excited about because (based on the post title) it shows a part of the planet in a way never seen before, and it shows it in astounding clarity. And i absolutely agree that NASA science missions are enormously worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

False color can also just be a more visible way to display a range of frequencies that wouldn't be visible to the human eye anyway. Take the images from the James Webb Telescope for example. The JWT operates in the infrared, but it can see more than just one infrared wavelength and can differentiate between them. Rather than showing three or more grayscale images, you can layer them over each other in different colors or hues and create a single image. If you need the individual grayscale images, they exist, but that's not what usually ends up in communities like this one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are like why do X when Y is still a problem?

I get that but the world is big why not do both?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Comedians and similar people who make content out of stuff they see in the news seem to be especially prone to this kind of thinking. They see an article about a phyics discovery or a math theorem or a sociology experiment and say something about science should focus on solving world hunger or curing cancer instead.

Seemingly ignorant of the facts that
a) Science isn't a monolith, and a sociologist or mathematician isn't a virologist or oncologist or whatever else would be needed for the problem they're ranting about.
b) Even if someone happened to be in the correct field for the problem the idiot is ranting about, they often couldn't help with the problem anyway because they're lacking the required experience and knowledge and just throwing people at the problem doesn't help if those people are grad students or barely postgrads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If we want to solve global warming and survive as a society, extraplanetary research is crucial. When we look outward, we learn about things that apply inward. NASA has something like a 17-1 return on investments. Every dollar we put into NASA returns so much more in tech and knowledge we can apply to help people here. It's always a good investment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's amazing the amount of detail spacecraft like Juno are able to capture compared to earlier satellites like voyager. Come a long way.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is beautiful! I don't think it's true color, but it's really pretty

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Images of pretty much anything in space are not true color

[–] tom_the_red 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going one step further, really nothing is true colour. Colour is subjective, and relational, we evolved to compensate for different sun brightnesses and angles, different sky colours. So the constant demand for 'true colour' images from space are not only frustrating, they are meaningless. You can provide images with very exacting wavelength information, but you can't make them true colour because that doesn't exist.

[–] Snowyman12334567890 10 points 1 year ago

What people want when they say true color is what our eyes will see if we were there looking at it with our own eyes.

[–] egeres 2 points 1 year ago

Just wait til neural implants allow us to expand the palette of wavelengths we can see, space travel gonna be lit 👀

[–] cmason1985 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the likelyhood that a random person would say "The planet Jupiter" if you asked them what this picture is without any context? 1 /1000?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty damn slim. I think some people could recognize things like the great red spot and the cloud bands, but this is a view we don't ever get to see. It'd be the same asking someone about a picture of Saturn without the rings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Very cyclone heavy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It feels a bit perverse. We’re really just out here probing peoples down south’s.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I sent this to people telling them this is Jupiter’s butt.

[–] Ipodjockey 2 points 1 year ago

Chemically speaking what is the blue color caused by?

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi 2 points 1 year ago

The blue is Magnificent!

Having said that, I first looked at this post while my phone was in greyscale mode, and it looked like a pic of a really crispy dosa. :D

[–] _number8_ 2 points 1 year ago

mother is mothering

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's so blue. I like it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful