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New Photos of Jupiter taken by the Juno Spacecraft
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:07 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:07 am
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A probe the size of a basketball court has taken unprecedented new images of Jupiter. NASA's $1 billion Juno spacecraft, launched in August 2011, took five years to reach and settle into orbit around the gas giant, which is more than 415 million miles from Earth. The probe has so far photographed Jupiter's poles for the first time, detected bizarre cloud formations, recorded mysterious auroras, and scanned deep into the planet's thick cloud tops. Juno repeatedly swings by Jupiter in a wide arc to minimize time inside the planet's intense radiation belts, which can damage sensitive electronics. Juno completed the fifth such maneuver on March 27, recording a fresh batch of images and streaming that raw data back to Earth — and now amateur astronomers are beginning to turn the gray, unprocessed photos into brilliant full-color images.
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This new image, processed by amateur astronomer Roman Tkachenko, shows Jupiter's north pole in all its stormy glory.
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This shot, put together by Gervasio Robles, merges three Juno flyby images to show Jupiter's elusive south pole in full view.
Here's an older one, but a good one:
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Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:08 am to meeple
Looks fake as frick. Looks like a painting
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:10 am to oVo
i mean honestly, i don't even know what i'm looking at.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:10 am to meeple
Space is so stupid, I wish we would quit funding it.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:13 am to meeple
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unprecedented
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bizarre
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mysterious
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stormy glory
Well, the author is trying to make it sound interesting, anyway.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:14 am to LucasP
We should launch our trash into orbit around earth and/or Jupiter so that we don't pollute the atmosphere
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:15 am to Chad504boy
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i mean honestly, i don't even know what i'm looking at.
Global warming, cap is clearly receding.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:16 am to LucasP
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Space is so stupid, I wish we would quit funding it.
We fund stupid citizens that dont work. Whats one more thing?
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 9:16 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:17 am to CamdenTiger
Gas giants are uninteresting to me.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:17 am to ksayetiger
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We fund stupid citizens that dont work. Whats one more thing?
we could probably solve most of our country's woes eliminating 5 years of space hoopla. spend billions of dollars to get a picture from 10 million years ago 10 billion light years away and it looks like something that's an the cover of a science fiction book.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:18 am to meeple
Pics definitely worth a billion dollars.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:18 am to BigEdLSU
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We should launch our trash into orbit around earth and/or Jupiter so that we don't pollute the atmosphere
Love this idea except not into orbit.
A giant island sized blocked of toxic waste launched into the abyss.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:19 am to ksayetiger
Exactly. We don't need to fund this shite. Without our support Israel, Africa and space would all just disappear. We need to fix America, space can find a way to pay for itself.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:20 am to Chad504boy
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we could probably solve most of our country's woes eliminating 5 years of space hoopla
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%.
We spend 18 billion on NASA annually and like 700 billion on Medicare alone.
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:22 am to LucasP
If we dont pump money into africa it would disappear? Sweet. Can hubble take pictures of a continent evaporating into nothing? I would pay to see that
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:23 am to ksayetiger
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I would pay to see that
I'll bet you would, commie. Any other great ideas you wanna waste my tax dollars on?
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:23 am to Hester Carries
Pretty sure it's been proven to be an oil painting. Jupiter is a hoax
ETA: This isn't my style y'all can have it back
ETA: This isn't my style y'all can have it back
This post was edited on 3/30/17 at 9:25 am
Posted on 3/30/17 at 9:27 am to LucasP
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Any other great ideas you wanna waste my tax dollars on?
How about all that construction nonsense in downtown dallas. What a fricking waste
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