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NASA Releases Juno's First Stunning Close-Ups of Jupiter's Giant Storm (theverge.com)
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first photos from its close flyby over Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot. These images offer the closest ever view of the massive storm. The Verge reports: Juno has been orbiting Jupiter for a little over a year on a mission to study the planet's interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. Its elliptical orbit around the planet takes the probe close to the surface for a few hours every 53 days. These are called perijove passes -- and on July 10th, Juno completed its seventh. A little after its closest approach, Juno's camera, JunoCam, snapped a few shots of the storm from about 5,000 miles above. Typically, a team of NASA scientists chooses which images a spacecraft collects on its path around a planet. But with Juno, NASA's opened up the process to the public: space fans can weigh in on the photos JunoCam shoots by ranking their favorite points of interest. After the photos are taken, NASA releases the raw images for the public to process. People can crop them, assemble them into collages, and change or enhance the colors. The results are mesmerizing. You can view even more photos here.
I find it amazing that the probe is able to take the beating of passes that close to the planet, given the significant amount of radiation exposure that entails. Awesome pics!
Best weather reporting of the year.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
If you're into planetary-scale goatses, perhaps you'd like to check out the north pole of Saturn some time.
Okay. That didn't come out quite as I'd intended.
Say, you're right! Some of the images I came across looked especially meaty. Right up my alley.
I expected better spelling and a better interface.
I thought the poles might be up your alley.
If you're into planetary-scale goatses, perhaps you'd like to check out the north pole of Saturn some time.
You may even go up to Uranus (or down, depending...)
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Do they have a GoFundMe page for their next picture-taking trip?
More like a beautiful pussy to me. Even the colors and rim convolutions.
Why are all of the images blurry? Did we use the old Hubble optics for Juno?
Red spot from Voyager 1 in the 1970's
I would have designed the probe to utilize the radiation as a power source, prolonging the mission. I don't understand why the mission planners didn't utilize this obvious power source but I'm sure they had their reasons. I would have done things completely differently.
How would you possibly do that?.
It turns out that, while the radiation is damaging (because each particle has high energy per particle), the actual amount of power represented by the radiation flux is not very high. You can tell that from the fact that Juno doesn't heat up when it crosses the radiation belts.
For what it's worth, here's a paper discussing radiation effects on power systems at Jupiter: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/...
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Please stop linking the Verge. Every time I go there I get assaulted by 50 megabytes of bullshit over a metered connection, and who knows how much if it would keep sending if I didn't block traffic immediately.
I know how much the tech oriented crowd likes to complain about the web page bloat that's been happening over the last 5-10 years, but the verge is absolutely the worst I've ever seen. Stop giving them attention.
"LED diode" ? What's that ?
It's like a Led Zeppelin, but with a diode.
Do they have a GoFundMe page for their next picture-taking trip?
I'd contribute to that one!
pussies look nasty. and don't get me started on the stench.
To put the distance over the great red spot in context, it's the equivalent of taking a photograph of Buenos Aires, or Cairo, or Jerusalem, from New York City.
From New York City, all of Canada, North and Central America, most of South America, all of Europe, and the vast majority of Russia are all contained within that distance. (ie, all of those places would be closer to you than the red spot was from Juno as it passed overhead).
In terms of orbital distances:
- geostationary orbit around the Earth (where all of our communication satellites are) is 42,164 km (26,199 mi). So Juno was 21% of this distance from the red spot at the time;
- the Moon is about 384,399 km from Earth, so Juno was about 2.3% of the distance to the Moon;
- the ISS orbits at about 405km above the Earth (NYC to Rochester - about 50km/30mi short of Niagra Falls), so Juno was just over 22 times that distance away.
At its closes point, Juno was 3,400km (2,100mi) above Jupiter, so that's:
- 8% the distance to Earth's geostationary orbit;
- 0.88% the distance to the Moon;
- 8.4 times the distance to the ISS;
- NYC to Caracas in Venezuela, or Mexico City, or Phoenix or Tucson AZ, or Barbados. The distance is just over half way across the Atlantic, and not all the way across the 48 States (WA, OR, CA are completely missed. The very North East of NV and half of AZ are within that distance).
waiting for a storm to clear on Jupiter?
Stench? compared to buttholes?
Glad to see it is still red, now I can sleep at night.
Look at that first picture. It's just a close up of a marble. How many millions did they pocket for the $100 camera and a $5 bag of marbles?
If you want the actual photos without all of the fake assery all the links show you, click this: https://www.missionjuno.swri.e...
Congratulations to Juno. Just think: Only yesterday they were a forgettable email program, and now they're traveling to Mars. Isn't technology great?
Sarbonn's blog: http://www.sarbonn.com/blog
Yet another example of a space mission with real scientific value where sending a human was unnecessary and would have been detrimental. If the US public would get over its obsession with spam-in-a-can, we could have a hundred times as many projects like this.
.....Jupiter's red spot is the vagina of the solar system.
Best post on the thread. Thank you.