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Stunning, Detailed New Image of Jupiter
darenw writes "From the Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Jupiter in late 2001, a new mosaic image has been assembled, revealing a stunning amount of detail, beautiful waves, swirls and spots in Jupiter's atmosphere. Get the story and images at the Cassini imaging team website." This is a huge image. My eyeball guess is that each pixel is the size of Pennsylvania.
"My eyeball guess is that each pixel is the size of Pennsylvania."
This is from the article: (right next to the link for the pictures)
"It is the most detailed global color portrait of Jupiter ever produced; the smallest visible features are ~ 60 km (37 miles) across."
So, your 'guess' is waaaaay off.
It's unbelievable that someone would submit an article WITHOUT ACTUALLY READING IT FIRST.
And, btw, there are pictures of sections of Jupiter with greater detail, this just happens to be the global picture with the finest detail. Also, the pictures have been somewhat manipulated and it could be argued that this is a computer generated image, using photographed textures. It's all in the article. pffffftt.
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This picture fits perfectly (and looks really cool) if you rotate it 90 degrees clockwise first.
Smallest visible features are not the same as the size of each pixel though.
Let's work out just how big each pixel is:
The largest image there has about 2240 pixels from the top of jupiter to the bottom. According to this website at NASA, jupiter has a diameter of 142,800 km.
142800/2240 is 63.75 km per pixel.
Oh, this works out the same as what it said on the website. Whoops. Ah well, at least you have an independent confirmation.
Just for the record, Pennsylvania is 309 miles long and 174 miles wide. That's 497 km x 280 km. Let's assume a square Pennsylvania of the same area, and we get 373 km per pixel.