re: New Photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno Spacecraft

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How do they know this computer is accurate?

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They test it with black and white photos on Earth on thousands of things they know the true color of.

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This, I mean what is the surface of say Saturn and Jupiter really like/ look like? Is there a surface?

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I believe they have theories but no real good idea. Some think they may have small solid cores while others think they may have liquid or plasma cores.

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Yeah but technology has progressed beyond that.

We can shoot 4K video on our tiny phones now.

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On Earth.

This is a little bit larger scale of distance traveled. There aren't data towers in space.

And this launched in 2011.

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Titan is covered in sticky, 'electric' sand
Sand on Saturn's largest moon acts like clingy packing peanuts.

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Space is cool as frick

Why can they not get far enough away to capture a photo of Jupiter in full?

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We should launch something at it's core to see what happens.

I'm assuming nothing can get past the storms and gas clouds though. Aren't there assumptions that has metallic rain and stuff?

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That's about the only way we'll ever find out what's down there. The problem though is that on top of storms of Hyper-Biblical proportions, Jupiter gives off enough radiation to fry any electronic instruments that spend too much time within its radiation ring. Basically, unless we can figure out a way to solve the radiation problem, anything we send into Jupiter will be toast long before it reaches the core.

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That's about the only way we'll ever find out what's down there. The problem though is that on top of storms of Hyper-Biblical proportions, Jupiter gives off enough radiation to fry any electronic instruments that spend too much time within its radiation ring. Basically, unless we can figure out a way to solve the radiation problem, anything we send into Jupiter will be toast long before it reaches the core.

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Well, lets launch a something that doesn't require electronics to explode and monitor visually to see what happens when it reaches the surface of the gas. Like a nuclear sized explosion.

Let's frick some shite up

You need to be nicknamed "The Launcher." Just launch something at something for Christ's sake!

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Well, lets launch a something that doesn't require electronics to explode and monitor visually to see what happens when it reaches the surface of the gas. Like a nuclear sized explosion.

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