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re: New Photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno Spacecraft
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:32 am to meeple
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:32 am to meeple
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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.
This comment seemed strange to me. What are we worried about here? I think it would be more interesting to intentionally shoot some organic matter up there and see if anything happens.
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:32 am to meeple
Honest question, since these pictures come in without color, how do they know what colors to use when colorizing them?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:40 am to TheCaterpillar
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We couldn't put a dent in our country's woes by stopping space exploration funding.
NASA represents like .5% of our federal budget. Welfare ALONE is over 12%.
While I support NASA, this kind of thought process is why the budget will never be corralled. NASA only gets 18 billion and it's only a drop in the bucket compared to social security, Medicare, and defense spending, but it's one of many drops that represents the 24% of the budget that isn't entitlements and defense. All of these departments that are too small to make a dent end up comprising nearly $1 trillion when the dust settles. If there is room to cut and be more efficient, it should happen regardless of the relative size of the department.
Anyway, cool pictures nonetheless.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:40 am to Darth_Vader
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Honest question, since these pictures come in without color, how do they know what colors to use when colorizing them?
If they're black and white, they have computer programs now that can pretty accurately predict what the colors are from gray scale.
Not sure if that's what you mean.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:40 am to elposter
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This comment seemed strange to me. What are we worried about here?
The long-term plan is to look for microbial life on those moons and we don't want to contaminate it with life from Earth and get a false positive.
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 9:41 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:41 am to slackster
Wow, the Muslims are really getting their space act together.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:43 am to slackster
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While I support NASA, this kind of thought process is why the budget will never be corralled. NASA only gets 18 billion and it's only a drop in the bucket compared to social security, Medicare, and defense spending, but it's one of many drops that represents the 24% of the budget that isn't entitlements and defense. All of these departments that are too small to make a dent end up comprising nearly $1 trillion when the dust settles. If there is room to cut and be more efficient, it should happen regardless of the relative size of the department.
Anyway, cool pictures nonetheless.
I agree with this, but NASA is not in the top 10 in terms of places we need to cut first, IMO.
This tune might change as space exploration is privatized more and puts for emphasis on exploration of the unknown.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:45 am to elposter
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This comment seemed strange to me. What are we worried about here? I think it would be more interesting to intentionally shoot some organic matter up there and see if anything happens.
This would be a cool experiment.
Launch hundreds of thousands of microbes, bacteria, etc. to different places in space and release them to see if they live.
I understand why they don't, but that would be awesome
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:46 am to EventHorizon
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The long-term plan is to look for microbial life on those moons and we don't want to contaminate it with life from Earth and get a false positive.
Makes sense.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:49 am to meeple
If they can take photos, why do they never take video and time lapse the footage?
Wouldn't it be cool to see clouds or storms or whatever in motion?
What am I missing?
Wouldn't it be cool to see clouds or storms or whatever in motion?
What am I missing?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:51 am to meeple
Another question... why are the photos black and white and not in color?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:52 am to PrimeTime Money
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If they can take photos, why do they never take video and time lapse the footage?
Wouldn't it be cool to see clouds or storms or whatever in motion?
What am I missing?
My guess is quality loss. Much harder to send quality video across space than still images.
But just a guess.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:53 am to meeple
Fake News - move along
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:55 am to TheCaterpillar
quote:What is video but a bunch of still images?
My guess is quality loss. Much harder to send quality video across space than still images. But just a guess.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:55 am to meeple
I often wonder what it would be like on the surface on every other planet just for a few moments. I know being on most planets, that we have observed, would result in instant death, but just to experience it would be absolutely wonderful and terrifying all at the same time.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:56 am to TheCaterpillar
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If they're black and white, they have computer programs now that can pretty accurately predict what the colors are from gray scale.
How do they know this computer is accurate?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:59 am to MontyFranklyn
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I often wonder what it would be like on the surface on every other planet just for a few moments. I know being on most planets, that we have observed, would result in instant death, but just to experience it would be absolutely wonderful and terrifying all at the same time
From what I understand Jupiter has no "surface". They think it may or may not have a small solid core I believe. But really they have no idea I think.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:59 am to PrimeTime Money
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Another question... why are the photos black and white and not in color?
In space, no one can color scheme.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 10:00 am to Darth_Vader
By taking black and white pictures of objects and seeing if the computer correctly fills in the proper color? I'm guessing..
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 10:01 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 10:00 am to MontyFranklyn
This, I mean what is the surface of say Saturn and Jupiter really like/ look like? Is there a surface?
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