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[secretanchitman]

Absolutely stunning - looks gorgeous.

 

[gofreak]

It's beautiful.

Is this how it would actually look if you were in a spacecraft in orbit looking out the window? i.e. this is the human-vision level colouring?

 

[AmyS]

Seeing all the clouds in some kind of 3D context instead of the vague 2D squiggle lines I've grown up with is quite amazing.

That planet looks terrifying.

Volimar:

Incredible.

 

[zoukka]

Earth roughly in scale.

 

[KurtFehl]

Because you have nothing that you otherwise look at on a regular basis of that scale and of that chemistry that would make it seem normal and, in fact, the only things that come close to it in day to day human experience are things that are explicitly man made and therefore "fake".

High altitude photos of storm systems on Earth look a little "odd" too for similar reasons but at least the collier scheme is familiar there.

It kinda looks like an oil painting

 

[Insane Metal]

Earth roughly in scale.

Oof.

We're so tiny.

I'd love to see a Jupiter probe someday... taking pictures from inside the planet.

 

[Einchy]

Jupiter is the planet you throw all of your space criminals so they're never able to leave the planet.

 

[Sölf]

Man, that looks so awesome.

 

[nolips]

Just the size of that thing. Mindblowing.

 

[Gai Murakumo]

That is so amazing!

 

[jmdajr]

Ice on Jupiter clouds.

 

[Square2015]

So what's underneath all that gaseous atmosphere?

 

[Dr Zhivago]

Metallic hydrogen, rocky core, magic space dragons, no-one knows! This probe will gather data about it.

 

[sphinx]

it's so hard for me to grasp "gas giant".

like... what's keeping all that gas together in form of a sphere and why so much of it and when did all that gas decide "ok, particles of gas, let's stick together!"

 

[Razorback]

it's so hard for me to grasp "gas giant".

like... what's keeping all that gas together in form of a sphere and why so much of it and when did all that gas decide "ok, particles of gas, let's stick together!"

Gravity.

 

[Omegasquash]

So what's underneath all that gaseous atmosphere?

Hotter, denser gas. Jupiter is a gas giant.

 

[danthefan]

it's so hard for me to grasp "gas giant".

like... what's keeping all that gas together in form of a sphere and why so much of it and when did all that gas decide "ok, particles of gas, let's stick together!"

Gravity. Same reason a few AUs away a load of dust got together, formed a sphere, and a few billion years later we call it Earth.

 

[Insane Metal]

Gravity. Same reason a few AUs away a load of dust got together, formed a sphere, and a few billion years later we call it Earth.

I was going to reply to him and then I saw your post. Perfect! Hehe

 

[PK Gaming]

I wonder what the interior of the planet would look like. Would it be a hellish, swirling mass of gas? Like imagine being able to dive into the center (discounting the immediate feasibility).

I can't even comprehend it.

 

[GK86]

NORTH POLAR STORMS ON JUPITER

This image of spiral storms in the north polar region of Jupiter was captured by the Juno spacecraft during its sixth perijove flyby at an altitude of 12,579 km on May 19, 2017. Sharpness, color channel mixing, and brightness have been enhanced.

 

[MiketheBSG]

Amazing. Nothing at all like Saturn's North Pole.

 

[Pestilence11]

Breaker breaker, aliens have fucked over the carbinator, I'm going to try and refuckulate it and land on Juniper to get some space weed.

Just watched that one the other day lol

OT: Cool pics

 

[jett]

so why hasn't nasa attempted a time-lapse video of Juno approaching Jupiter like that old Voyager footage :|

 

[EVIL]

I wonder what the interior of the planet would look like. Would it be a hellish, swirling mass of gas? Like imagine being able to dive into the center (discounting the immediate feasibility).

I can't even comprehend it.

It has most likely a rocky metallic core with on top of that an ocean 50.000 kilometers deep made out of a metallic hydrogen liquid. So imagine a raging metallic ocean constantly bombarded by lightning because of the constant self perpetual storm so violent in nature, you would probably disintegrate just by wind forces alone. not something you want to take your family to for a picnic

metallic hydrogen: is molecular hydrogen which has been squeezed until it becomes liquid metal capable of conducting electricity with no resistance.

artist rendition of it

 

[Speevy]

If you were a space deity who could not die, which planet would you want to live on/visit?

 

[sphinx]

It has most likely a rocky metallic core with on top of that an ocean 50.000 kilometers deep made out of a metallic hydrogen liquid. So imagine a raging metallic ocean constantly bombarded by lightning because of the constant self perpetual storm so violent in nature, you would probably disintegrate just by wind forces alone. not something you want to take your family to for a picnic

metallic hydrogen: is molecular hydrogen which has been squeezed until it becomes liquid metal capable of conducting electricity with no resistance.

artist rendition of it

so there's liquid metal under those gases, moving in form of waves, just like our oceans, and they are getting bombarded by lightning?

and the Rocky core is 50'000 deep... that's about 4 times earth's diameter, right?

and that's happening right now?

I mean how likely is "most llikely"?

 

[PSYGN]

Looks delicious!

 

[WeirdoStalkerJr]

How can that probe withstand the immense radiation coming from Jupiter that close? Simply amazing!

 

[Wyndstryker]

How can that probe withstand the immense radiation coming from Jupiter that close? Simply amazing!

The orbit trajectory is designed so that it approaches from the poles which have the least radiation and doesn't stay in high radiation areas for very long.

 

[Loxley]

Man, between this and the photos of Pluto from last year, I just want NASA to get ALL of the money.

 

[WeirdoStalkerJr]

The orbit trajectory is designed so that it approaches from the poles which have the least radiation and doesn't stay in high radiation areas for very long.

Awesome! Thank you for answering! Very cool.

 

[Escape Goat]

Hotter, denser gas. Jupiter is a gas giant.

Jupiter could have a small solid core. We may never know.

 

[Kain-Nosgoth]

so what's the closest image of jupiter we got?

 

[DieH@rd]

so why hasn't nasa attempted a time-lapse video of Juno approaching Jupiter like that old Voyager footage :|

Maybe because of the camera positions, or maybe Juno was rotating.

 

[AstroNut325]

Man, between this and the photos of Pluto from last year, I just want NASA to get ALL of the money.

I kindly ask that you relay this message to your congressional representatives, senators and the president.

 

[Izayoi]

Very rarely do I email everyone in my family something, but this is one of those times. Some stunning images in here.

 

[EVIL]

so there's liquid metal under those gases, moving in form of waves, just like our oceans, and they are getting bombarded by lightning?

and the Rocky core is 50'000 deep... that's about 4 times earth's diameter, right?

and that's happening right now?

I mean how likely is "most llikely"?

Most likely as in that is the main theory since we don't really know. But these theories are not based on random scientific whims. Its like trying to guess based on evidence. We think there is a core because how planets form, but outside of that it might be just an ocean under thick clouds. It wont be gas throughout because of the pressures that are put on hydrogen atoms at the center which would definitely cause it to turn into liquid metallic hydrogen. with a spectrometer we can analyze the light spectrum of a planet which tells us about its composition, so from Jupiter's light spectrum we know its mostly hydrogen and helium and some methane

 

[gaugebozo]

It looks like a planet is being devoured by the Abyss from Dark Souls.

I want to play that game.

Edit:

"In the Age of Ancients the system was unformed, shrouded by fog."

 

[Soapbox Killer]

By the way.


If you look at The moon tonight and for the next couple of days I think. You'll be able to see Jupiter with the bake eye. At least here in the North east of the USA.

Its brighter than everything else in the sky at dusk and even after sunset.

 

[GK86]

That spot tho.

 

[falconxcrunner09]

By the way.


If you look at The moon tonight and for the next couple of days I think. You'll be able to see Jupiter with the bake eye. At least here in the North east of the USA.

Its brighter than everything else in the sky at dusk and even after sunset.

I was able to see it last night and was also able to see Saturn too. I love space so much

 

[GK86]

Jason Major‏ @JPMajor

I processed one of the @NASAJuno P6 raw map-projected images and rotated it 180º and look: Jovey McJupiterface

 

[The Sum of Zero]

All these pictures are amazing.