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[Dynomutt]

If Earth is flat why are the other planets round?

 

[Buckle]

Woah at that second to last shot.

 

[kyser73]

Seeing Jupiter at the poles really changes the appearance of the cloud formations - we're used to seeing the front shits showing the banding, Great Red Spot & so on that these polar images look like a different world.

That Reddit post about the descent into Jupiter is pretty cool too - being able to sample matter like that would be amazing science.

 

[tci]

The last few years of space exploration have been pretty amazing. Not only have we found a lot of earth like planets. We also have given new wonderful new high quality photo of some of our solar system's planets. Before they were just a simple blurry dot of color. Now it is an amazing detailed planet.

 

[Baroquemantic]

Wow, that is stunningly beautiful. Wish I could see that in person.

 

[Xe4]

Seeing Jupiter at the poles really changes the appearance of the cloud formations - we're used to seeing the front shits showing the banding, Great Red Spot & so on that these polar images look like a different world.

That Reddit post about the descent into Jupiter is pretty cool too - being able to sample matter like that would be amazing science.

We've already sent Gallileo into Jupiter, and Juno is going to go eventually. It allows good science to be done, and also keeps the moons from being contaminated. Cassini is also going to be sent into Saturn later this year.

They get crushed long before they see shit like metallic hydrogen though.

 

[lastplayed]

We've already sent Gallileo into Jupiter

I wonder how he's doing. We should probably send him some bread.

 

[HaloRose]

OMG They're amazing beautiful

 

[Nostremitus]

So this high tech interplanetary space probe built by NASA sends grey photos? I'm confused... why not in color?

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7776887/?reload=true

Because color cameras that are radiation hardened (able to function in radioactive environments, ie outer space) are still being researched.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Data storage on the spacecraft and transfer back to Earth is VERY limited, so taking pictures in monochrome is more efficient when you don't particularly care about the colours, just the general features. Plus, monochrome pictures can be recolored easily using information from images taken with Earth-based telescopes and other instrumentation data from the spacecraft such as spectroscopy data.

You gotta remember that almost all spacecraft in operation now is working with technology at least 5-10 years old.

Thanks for the replies, guys. That was informative.

I wonder if whatever is being built right now has technology evolved enough that putting a color camera vs a monochrome one would be a neglible cost/bandwidth difference.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7776887/?reload=true

Because color cameras that are radiation hardened (able to function in radioactive environments, ie outer space) are still being researched.

Actually scratch that. Today I learned something new!

 

[bobeth]

Speechless...

 

[Christian]

What is it going to take to get someone to probe Uranus? It's so long overdue.

*Edit* - DAMNIT SO LATE

 

[///PATRIOT]

I find fascinating gas giants, I remember spending lot of time watching the gas giant in Alien Isolation.

 

[AgentP]

My god

It's full of stars.

 

[muteki]

How can a South Pole be elusive?

 

[SolVanderlyn]

How can a South Pole be elusive?

Being under layers of gas might do it.

 

[yanipheonu]

Anyone else get a little creeped out by seeing other planets like this? I think it's just the awe from seeing an Alien world. Plus with gas giants they're just so big, it's literally awesome.

Plus that south pole picture literally looks like some mad lovecraftian entity.

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

Wow, that is stunningly beautiful. Wish I could see that in person.

That would be terrifying to me, to be so far away from humans, to be so insignificant in such a large dark space.

 

[FTF]

Wow, these pictures are amazing.

 

[KarmaCow]

Anyone else get a little creeped out by seeing other planets like this? I think it's just the awe from seeing an Alien world. Plus with gas giants they're just so big, it's literally awesome.

Plus that south pole picture literally looks like some mad lovecraftian entity.

When I was younger I had nightmares of Jupiter filling up the sky and consuming the Earth. It was only Jupiter though, not the Sun or the other gas giants and I'm not sure why Jupiter was more ominous in my mind.

 

[Vladimir Putin]

Jupiter has shrugged off worse than anything we could ever throw at it"

Shoemaker–Levy 9: Cash me outside

 

[Baroquemantic]

That would be terrifying to me, to be so far away from humans, to be so insignificant in such a large dark space.

I'd go with ya!

 

[blugbox]

It's so scary to think that the radiation pumping out of that beast is killing the very camera giving us these amazing images. Such a harsh environment!

I want a view from the surface of Io with Jupiter in the sky

 

[Clydefrog]

 

[Evil John Locke]

Damnit can't unsee

 

[Flipyap]

Everyone should watch 2010. Not only is it underrated hard Sci fi (to a point) it's incredibly timely again re. Russia.

And the main character and monster...is Jupiter. It treats the world with appropriate awe and terror.

Yessss. The best thing about the movie is that its climactic "action" setpiece is basically (literally?) cosmological physics porn.

 

[Jack The Nipper]

this stuff is really interesting, makes sci fi movies more fun as well

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.

Holy shit.

 

[Dice]

Looks like a whole bunch of gas

Jupiter is the biggest fart in the solar system.

 

[VaultBoy101]

I hope they're immune to radiation.

And melting.

And freezing.

And being crushed.

And drowning in liquid metal.

Spoiler

And flying space monkeys.

 

[Omni]

And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.

Never learnt this at school

Really insane to think about

 

[Stinkles]

Yessss. The best thing about the movie is that its climactic "action" setpiece is basically (literally?) cosmological physics porn.

I'll be in my bunk. SHITTING MYSELF.

 

[wesleyshark]

I'm in awe at these photos

 

[Red Fire]

Juno's next flyby of Jupiter should happen around May 19. But Juno won't fly forever.

NASA will plunge the spacecraft into Jupiter's clouds in 2018 or 2019.

This will prevent it from spreading any bacteria from Earth on the gas giant's icy, ocean-filled moons like Europa and Ganymede.

What would happen if we did spread bacteria on the moons?

 

[Escape Goat]

What would happen if we did spread bacteria on the moons?

We would have spread bacteria to the moons?

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

We already tried..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9

It's still standing.

 

[GK86]

What would happen if we did spread bacteria on the moons?

We fuck up a perfectly good moon.

 

[Red Fire]

We would have spread bacteria to the moons?

We fuck up a perfectly good moon.

Can bacteria even survive there?

Even if they did, what would be the downside? I mean it's just bacteria, how could they fuck shit up?

I'm sorry I'm a noob

 

[Flipyap]

I'll be in my bunk. SHITTING MYSELF.

Whatever, space in general is scary as shit. All of it. The farther you get from all the spiders, the scarier it gets.
There are worse ways to become overwhelmed by the dread of human insignificance and narrowly escape with your life than to experience it while watching a self-replicating machine making gravity love to a handsome gas giant.

 

[GK86]

Can bacteria even survive there?

Even if they did, what would be the downside? I mean it's just bacteria, how could they fuck shit up?

I'm sorry I'm a noob

Any bacteria can potentially contaminate the moon. Which would ruin future studies of that moon and as well as ruin any potential life on the moon.

Think of it in Earth terms, where you introduce a foreign species to a new environment, and that new species takes out and kills off the native species.

 

[The Artisan]

And yet you can fit all the other planets in between the Earth and the Moon.

i was staring up at the moon last night telling me friend that you could fit all these planets in between, and some random guy to the left called out bullshit. i then proceeded to show him your post...

 

[Puruzi]

looks like a germ.

 

[RedSparrows]

Jupiter is one of those things that is so big and alien and shit that my brain goes hnnngggg and seizes up. There are no words for what things like Jupiter mean to a human, other than raw science measurements. Space in general does this to me. Fascinating and deeply unnerving.

 

[SliceSabre]

Wow Jupiter looks cooler in these picture than the pictures we're used to. As expected of 3rd best planet.

 

[Pinko Marx]

What is it going to take to get someone to probe Uranus? It's so long overdue.

*Edit* - DAMNIT SO LATE

Yeah like a 100 years late when that joke was still funny.

 

[Stinkles]

Jupiter is one of those things that is so big and alien and shit that my brain goes hnnngggg and seizes up. There are no words for what things like Jupiter mean to a human, other than raw science measurements. Space in general does this to me. Fascinating and deeply unnerving.

Do not watch this:

https://youtu.be/HEheh1BH34Q

 

[nkarafo]

Than we nuke Jupiter....if thats even possible.

Like trying to kill an elephant with a toothpick.

 

[Kaiken]

This looks like bacteria or something through a microscope.

I always find it amazing how much the universe mimics itself no matter the scale.

What if the bacteria under a microscope is just a miniature Jupiter?

 

[Maxey]

Do not watch this:

https://youtu.be/HEheh1BH34Q

It's kinda depressing to think that while we know just how mindbogglingly massive the universe is (and that's just what we can observe so far with current tech, mind you) we might be living on the only planet with life in the whole universe and, for better or for worse, we probably won't even personally venture outside of our own solar system, let alone galaxy.

 

[Nostremitus]

What would happen if we did spread bacteria on the moons?

Those moons are considered to be the most likely places to find life beyond Earth in our solar system.

Introducing bacteria from Earth could potentially kill everything there... If there's anything there..