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Latest view of Jupiter from NASAs Juno spacecraft
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John Kowalski
Banned
So you're telling me to settle
hamauzu kaito
Member
HAHA I'm not crazy 
A while back i think i read in WIRED about a captured asteroid that is technically our second moon, what are the other four. Are they objects in random orbit or at Lagrange points?
A while back i think i read in WIRED about a captured asteroid that is technically our second moon, what are the other four. Are they objects in random orbit or at Lagrange points?
Only our one Moon counts, but the Earth has had various other natural objects that temporarily enter orbit around Earth and then either leave or crash into Earth. But they don't last that long compared to our Moon, which has been around for billions of years.
And besides, the Moon can be traced back to Earth itself (same isotopes in rocks, unlike other planets), so it is technically a child of the Earth; any new natural satellites would be adopted.
Mr. Bad Example
Neo Member
Apparently there are quite a few, although they're not actually moons--they don't orbit Earth. They're more moon...ish.
Interesting stuff
hamauzu kaito
Member
thanks, this must be what i was thinking of.
Back on topic, I wonder if some of the symmetrical storms were cause by breakup impacts the shoemaker-levy 9.
ZoltanXerxes
Member
Welp, my day just peaked. Not sure what to do with the rest of it now. I think I'll just stare at it for a while and admire how damned impossible it is to comprehend.
The raw combined RGB images on JunoCam still need to be processed a bit to generate "approximate true color". It's closer to this:
The raw source: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=633
First thing I thought.
I feel you. It's intense when you think of the things out there, like Jupiter, that exist without purpose nor capability of reason. Space is always such wild stuff.
It's a real shame NASA never did a flyby composite like in that old gif. I guess the video in the OP is just a 3D model extrapolated from a few pictures?Amazing
If it was as close to us as Sirius, it would give the moon a run for its money in the night's sky.
LookAtMeGo
Member
It does save us from asteroids and comets with its awesome gravity.
SiegfriedFM
Member
The Earth exists without purpose nor capability of reason.
Am I misreading this? Sirius isn't anywhere close to us compared to Jupiter.
The Jazz Cabbage Master
Member
Considering scientists believe Van Gogh was actually able to perceive turbulence, it makes perfect sense lol
Yeah my mind starts to freak out a bit when I start to think about it more. I just don't know if I have to mental capacity for any of it lol
SolarPowered
Member
I was just thinking about how some classical artists would have LOVED to have this level of detail to work with.
HazySaiyan
Banned
Wow that's beautiful, science is awesome
nkarafo
Member
You know what freaks me out the most? That we, as a species on this solar system, that can "see" it. I wonder if other civilizations exist/existed/will exist that also can. I mean, how meaningless or a waste all this would be if there isn't anyone to notice it and blow his mind?
-BLITZ-
Member
Is like work of art, paint that is.
Heh, it would be interesting to find out that portion of blue is actually clouds filled with water, well I don't know much about Jupiter because I didn't read lately about it so it could be from other reasons for that blue color, but you know, hopes never dies.
Heh, it would be interesting to find out that portion of blue is actually clouds filled with water, well I don't know much about Jupiter because I didn't read lately about it so it could be from other reasons for that blue color, but you know, hopes never dies.
SaviourMK2
Member
This is one of those things I wanna just jump into the experience despite knowing i'll die, immediately, and no amount of protection will save me.
Lol my comment is in response to the poster's first sentence in regards to the star Betelgeuse. Sirius is about 8lys from us. If Betelgeuse (which is over 600lys away) was that close, it would be incredibly bright and spectacular during nights on earth. They're expecting that when it does eventually go super nova, it would be a glorious death knell. Imagine if it was only 8lys away when it goes BOOM?! We would probably be fucked.
Trying to assign purpose to giant balls of air robs it of its actual majesty.
nkarafo
Member
I doubt anything that far would have an effect on us, let alone cause us to be "fucked". I mean, the star is massive and all but come on, 8 light years is very far.
Every time I see images of Jupiter from these "strange" angles and false colour I keep thinking of the Eden summon animation from FF8.
It's fascinating how different things can appear based on your point of view. It'll never cease to amaze me though that we have the technologies to see the skies in ways never seen before.
It's fascinating how different things can appear based on your point of view. It'll never cease to amaze me though that we have the technologies to see the skies in ways never seen before.
Within 8lys would absolutely fuck us up. NASA and most astronomers state that a super nova has to be within 50lys to cause our biosphere problems. Within 8lys? Yeah, we're not surviving that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth_supernova
http://earthsky.org/space/will-a-nearby-supernova-harm-life-on-earth-in-2012-nah
We'd get TRASHED at 8ly. The energies are astonishing. Literally Alchemy levels.
Edit. Beaten like a nuclear transmutation.
8 Light years is nothing. Back in 2004 a blast from a Magnetar 50,000 Light Years away partially ionized a part of the Earths atmosphere and blinded some Satellites.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astr...plosion_rocked_earth_on_december_27_2004.html
Space is scary
WhiskeyDiver
Member
It's a shame we probably won't ever have the tech to study the metallic hydrogen layer up close. That would be something to see given how we have only seen liquid hydrogen layer at near absolute zero.
lastplayed
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Sevenfold
Member
This can't be overstated. Jupiter hoovers up asteroids and they gather in front and behind trapped in a perfect mix of gravity from Jupiter and the Sun. Another of those ingredients that have allowed us to exist like our fucking giant moon!
These pictures are beautiful.
A storm bigger than our planet? Nope. No matter how hard I try, I'm just not equipped to comprehend it!
It still boggles my mind when I think that everything in our solar system fits between Earth and the Moon!
Sir_Crocodile
Member
There is evil there that does not sleep, and the Great Eye is ever watchful.
Not Jupiter, but...
My flatmate bought a small 200 bridge camera (with 22x zoom) a while back when his old one broke, and one night he was taking a photograph of the moon with a long exposure, set up on the tripod on our balcony. When he was looking at the images later on his pc, he saw a tiny blurry object just below the moon and zoomed in.
This is what he saw -
He intends on pointing at Jupiter sometime.
My flatmate bought a small 200 bridge camera (with 22x zoom) a while back when his old one broke, and one night he was taking a photograph of the moon with a long exposure, set up on the tripod on our balcony. When he was looking at the images later on his pc, he saw a tiny blurry object just below the moon and zoomed in.
This is what he saw -
He intends on pointing at Jupiter sometime.
Leyasu
Banned
Why can't we moon photos of that quality?
Do they really expect us to believe that the footage is real? It's "gaseous" surface isn't moving...at all
Edit:
Looks like someone is starting to ask the right questions...
Edit:
Looks like someone is starting to ask the right questions...