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Stunning, Detailed New Image of Jupiter

Posted by jamie on from the dr.-zeus dept.

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.

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  1. Mirror by fredrikj · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmm, I didn't have any trouble accessing this myself... but seeing as others did, here's a mirror of the fullsize JPEG version.

  2. Featured on APOD today by embobo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    One of the images was featured on the Astronomy Picture of the Day site, so they have a mirror.


  3. in case you have a telescope by OneOver137 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jupiter will be well placed in the sky for the next several months. Even a small 2.4" (60mm) scope will show some detail. More info can be found here: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/plane ts/article_174_1.asp

  4. The far planets are dim. by yo303 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I think we're going to be disappointed when we take tourist trips out to the far planets.

    *All* the images that we've seen, from telescopes through Voyager through Cassini, were exposed for a long time (meaning longer than a second). Were we to actually look at the gas giant planets and their moons with our eyes, they'd be pretty dim. We might get some nice views if we turn all the spaceship lights down, and let our eyes get accustomed to the dark, but I doubt any detail of Pluto would be visible.

    I don't have the energy to work out the actual lux levels; I only barely had the energy to write this post.

    yo.