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Beautiful!

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Awe inspiring.

 

[Gallbaro]

The Van Gogh planet.

 

[Guy.brush]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

Listen to Jupiter's electromagnetic "voices" captured by Voyager. So full of majesty and eeriness.

 

[psyfi]

SO COOL

 

[B.O.O.M]

That looked amazing ..awe inspiring stuff really

 

[jelly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs

Listen to Jupiter's electromagnetic "voices" captured by Voyager. So full of majesty and eeriness.

I had that on the background when I was studying. It's pretty chilling

 

[i-Lo]

That colour scheme though. Is that the actually what it looks like or were the images given colour in post process?

I had that on the background when I was studying. It's pretty chilling

Been there done that; it works wonders.

 

[rbanke]

isnt this what it really looks like though?
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=1276

(happy to be wrong if not)

I always get slightly bummed at the enhancements done to space photo's to make them much more colorful than they really are. Anyone that has more info on that, please correct or add to this.

EDIT: I am aware that they often use cameras that see different spectrums than the human eye

 

[geomon]

Don't believe NASA's lies. Earth is flat ya'll and Jupiter is a picture of a circle put up on a string in space.

 

[Disxo]

Imagine being there

 

[Ziltoidia 9]

I bet all those huge white storms in the brown band towards the top are bigger than earth.

 

[18-Volt]

Mesmerizing.

So. When are we going to put a robot on this thing? I want to see how the surface looks like.

 

[Guy.brush]

isnt this what it really looks like though?
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=1276

(happy to be wrong if not)

I always get slightly bummed at the enhancements done to space photo's to make them much more colorful than they really are. Anyone that has more info on that, please correct or add to this.

EDIT: I am aware that they often use cameras that see different spectrums than the human eye

That upload is probably more like a .RAW capture of the captured image. Not really what a human eye would see, but rather flat.

 

[Y2Kev]

Wow, I never knew there was so much...blue.

 

[ascii42]

Mesmerizing.

So. When are we going to put a robot on this thing? I want to see how the surface looks like.

It's a gas planet, so that might be difficult.

 

[GK86]

Mesmerizing.

So. When are we going to put a robot on this thing? I want to see how the surface looks like.

We will see how it looks (hopefully) next year in Feb. Juno is going to take a suicide dive into the planet.

 

[sphinx]

Mesmerizing.

So. When are we going to put a robot on this thing? I want to see how the surface looks like.

is there a hard, solid surface though?

wouldn't a robot just penetrate on one side, pierce through it and come out from the other?

 

[Truant]

It scares me to death that this unfathomably huge thing is just out there churning and grinding without any purpose.

 

[Wyndstryker]

That is a planet and not some living space creature waiting to devour us all right?

Those swirls are hypnotic.

 

[ascii42]

is there a hard, solid surface though?

wouldn't a robot just penetrate on one side, pierce through it and come out from the other?

It'd probably melt or collapse from pressure as it travels toward the middle.

 

[Marvie_3]

Damn this is awesome

 

[Guy.brush]

It scares me to death that this unfathomably huge thing is just out there churning and grinding without any purpose.

Purpose is a very human concept. But still, even if we stay with us, who knows, maybe in 2.000 years we are mining Jupiter for fuel and it enables us to go interstellar?

 

[teh_pwn]

is there a hard, solid surface though?

wouldn't a robot just penetrate on one side, pierce through it and come out from the other?

There's a metallic hydrogen core but gravity would incinerate it way before it got there

 

[Truant]

Purpose is a very human concept. But still, even if we stay with us, who knows, maybe in 2.000 years we are mining Jupiter for fuel and it enables us to go interstellar?

That's what makes it scary.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

xx

 

[taoofjord]

What's up with the jagged edges on the rim of the planet?

 

[VariantX]

is there a hard, solid surface though?

wouldn't a robot just penetrate on one side, pierce through it and come out from the other?

Nope. Just a big ball of gas. The weight of the atmosphere would crush and pulverize anything we could send down there after descending more than a few hundred miles down. We haven't even factored heat into the equation yet. I've heard that after descending far enough down into jupiter or probably any other gas planet, that the pressure gets so great that the atmosphere becomes like a liquid.

 

[crimzonflame]

I remember one time my friend told me that Jupiter also has a moon of its own.

 

[djplaeskool]

Watch this while listening to Doom menu music
I'm just waiting for the title screen to load in.

 

[Wyndstryker]

I remember one time my friend told me that Jupiter also has a moon of its own.

Jupiter actually has several moons.

 

[Simon Belmont]

I remember one time my friend told me that Jupiter also has a moon of its own.

We're currently aware of 67 moons of Jupiter.

 

[crimzonflame]

We're currently aware of 67 moons of Jupiter.

What?! Does that include our moon as well?

 

[Simon Belmont]

What?! Does that include our moon as well?

No. Jupiter has 67 known moons.

Saturn has 62.

 

[everyday math]

What?! Does that include our moon as well?

??? This isn't a really new concept. No not our own. It has that many.

 

[ascii42]

What?! Does that include our moon as well?

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system without at least one moon. Even former planet Pluto has moons. Earth is unique in our solar system for only having one moon.

 

[blu]

The Mandelbrot planet.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

xx

 

[Simon Belmont]

That's the surface of Venus.

What does that have to do with putting a robot on the non-existent surface of Jupiter? Venus is a rocky planet with a runaway greenhouse effect. Jupiter is a gas giant.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Edit: I just realised that I mixed up Jupiter and Venus the whole time.
Sorry guys ;/

 

[ChryZ]

Gunbuster was a mistake. How can you compress something this pretty into a black hole bomb?!

 

[Simon Belmont]

There is a surface and there is a man made probe standing on that surface.

Jupiter has no surface. Venus does. That's why you can land a robot on Venus and not one on Jupiter.

 

[AnotherDayAnotherDollar]

Such a beautiful flat planet

It's a circle shaped flat planet.

 

[hamauzu kaito]

Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system without at least one moon. Even former planet Pluto has moons. Earth is unique in our solar system for only having one moon.

I thought we had 2 moons technically.

 

[John Kowalski]

I'll never see this irl

 

[crimzonflame]

I thought we had 2 moons technically.

I think that was during the time of the dinosaurs. Wasnt the 2nd moon crashing into earth the reason why the dinosaurs became extinct?

 

[Simon Belmont]

I thought we had 2 moons technically.

If you want to get suuuper technical we have six.

I think that was during the time of the dinosaurs. Wasnt the 2nd moon crashing into earth the reason why the dinosaurs became extinct?

Not sure if serious.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

I think that was during the time of the dinosaurs. Wasnt the 2nd moon crashing into earth the reason why the dinosaurs became extinct?

Where do you read these things?

 

[Hoo-doo]

I'll never see this irl

You can actually spot Jupiter in the night sky with a modest telescope.

 

[Volimar]

I thought we had 2 moons technically.