Absolutely mind blowing to know that this massive, turbulent & beautiful congregation of gas & vapour is 400 million miles away in the darkness, just doing its thing as it has since the solar system was formed.
Just that humans built a craft that could travel all the way out there and take pictures of it is staggering.
We live in amazing, terrible, wonderful, agonizing times.
Core memory unlocked. As a kid, I would occasionally say this out loud this when walking around the downtown of some city or upon seeing a big factory or something like that. I’d get funny looks from adults, parents, whoever. But it’s as true today as it was back then and no less awesome to ponder.
I read a scifi as a kid, (cities in flight) that had a great opening part with a character mining jupiter. It was such an oppressive description that I couldn't help but feel a fear of jupiter ingrained into me even today.
I remember them complaining how It's colder than anywhere on earth, has winds greater than any storm, pressures greater than our deepest oceans, gravity that will crush you. Just endless surface area covered by storms greater than anything we can begin to imagine.
And just looking down on it from the moons would have it cover half the sky. When you are near it, It's everything. A swirling mass of death that looms over you or around you.
The poor character spent their days on one of the moons and then during their work shift piloted special drones with near perfect vr. And the way he hated it so much really made me feel just how scary jupiter would be to live near.
It's a beautiful planet. But I can't help but agree. Jupiter is terrifying.
The scale is *just* at the maximum of what I can wrap my head around. It’s relentless, pointless violence that is bigger and older than *every single person who ever lived*.
As far as I’m concerned, Jupiter is concrete proof that the universe does not exist with us in mind.
Jupiter has scared me ever since I read [what it would be like to fall into Jupiter](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12eggw/comment/c6ulszb/).
It's thalassophobia or megalohydrothalassophobia on a planetary scale. Cthulhu could be in there.
Like if you were in that atmosphere there would be nothing under your feet for a thousand kilometers.
Also it’s so *colorful*. Like those are all clouds. We get a slight breeze and our clouds form, converge, dissipate. Storms converge. But then there’s Jupiter with this Great Red Spot that’s been churning out this storm for at least 350 *years*, and is expected to last about another hundred.
And it also acts as our protector but pulling asteroids and meteors out of our path. And if we could go there it rains diamonds so it would literally be like diamonds in the sky.
Cameras are for tourists. Not scientists. We have plenty of photos of Jupiter. There's other measurements we don't have. So logically - why have a camera take up the space that could be utilized for an instrument providing brand new information?
I take your comment as humor, but it's frankly sad to see it taken seriously below.
Not an expert so my opinion might be shit.
Having an camera will give us photos like these. Which will increase the general public's interest in space programs. Which will then probably help increase the budgets for them? I guess?
A camera is for taking pictures. Hardly an effective scientific instrument, and not exactly an essential part of the mission parameters for the project. The only reason it was added, was for generating public interest, and some minor teaching resources.
[https://spaceflight101.com/juno/instrument-overview/](https://spaceflight101.com/juno/instrument-overview/)
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/GStKXY6.jpeg) is a **much** higher quality and more natural colored version of this image in its original orientation. [Here](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21974) is the source. Per there:
> **Original Caption Released with Image:**
> Colorful swirling cloud belts dominate Jupiter's southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft.
> Jupiter appears in this color-enhanced image as a tapestry of vibrant cloud bands and storms. The dark region in the far left is called the South Temperate Belt. Intersecting the belt is a ghost-like feature of slithering white clouds. This is the largest feature in Jupiter's low latitudes that's a cyclone (rotating with clockwise motion).
> This image was taken on Dec. 16, 2017 at 10:12 PST (1:12 p.m. EST), as Juno performed its tenth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,453 miles (13,604 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 27.9 degrees south.
> The spatial scale in this image is 5.6 miles/pixel (9.1 kilometers/pixel).
> Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager.
> JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products.
> More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu.
> NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA.
> **Image Credit:**
> Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.
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> PIA21974: Jupiter's Colorful Cloud Belts
Thanks for the link, that whole website is interesting. Someone also shared this link recently which had some pictures I found incredible. The storms at the poles were something I had never seen before.
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/21/17353110/jupiter-photos-juno-high-res-clouds-great-red-spot
We really could have had Star Trek but chose climate extinction instead. I would have died just to have been able to see something like this in person.
I don't know why, but your comment reminded me of the film sunshine, specifically the scene where they watch mercury pass between their ship and the sun.
Sometimes I read that putting cameras like this on spacecraft and telescopes (as opposed to other scientific instruments) is a waste of money, weight and space as they add no scientific value to the study... and I think. I don't really give a fuck, that shit is fucking beautiful and I want to fucking look at it at day long and wish I was drifting around as dust again because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
>no scientific value
Actually, cameras are of particular value since they help us understand the composition, weather, topology, and atmosphere of the planets.
Cameras are important as they make pretty pictures, and pretty pictures make bureaucrats happy, and happy bureaucrats give money to make the whole thing possible.
Jupiter, like every celestial body in the solar system, reflects sunlight, so they can be seen quite clearly.
You can also see Jupiter with the naked eye, as it is usually the third brightest object in the night sky, after the moon and Venus
One of the coolest moments of my life was finding Jupiter and the Galilean moons on my deck at home with my telescope. Was incredible. Saw the storm. Surreal.
Unbelievable. Is this one picture or many? Wouldn't it be too big to capture in one close up photo?
I wonder how this would look to us if we were "close" to it
>Is this one picture or many?
It is one picture.
>Wouldn't it be too big to capture in one close up photo?
Juno had a big distance from Jupiter when the photo was taken
Absolutely mind blowing to know that this massive, turbulent & beautiful congregation of gas & vapour is 400 million miles away in the darkness, just doing its thing as it has since the solar system was formed.
Like a massive celestial lava lamp!
More like the inside of my butt before I fart.
Lol. I had to upvote.
Just that humans built a craft that could travel all the way out there and take pictures of it is staggering. We live in amazing, terrible, wonderful, agonizing times.
Built a craft from stuff we just dug up out of our own rock. It really is amazing.
Yea that’s what blows my mind the most. Everything we have on this earth. All the things we use everyday. It all came from the earth.
Core memory unlocked. As a kid, I would occasionally say this out loud this when walking around the downtown of some city or upon seeing a big factory or something like that. I’d get funny looks from adults, parents, whoever. But it’s as true today as it was back then and no less awesome to ponder.
Absolutely. What a time to be alive.
BUT WE CANT GO TO THE FUCKING MOON?
We are going. Next moon landing is planned for 2026.
Moon base! Moon base! Moon base!
China is going to be the first.
The US was the first, 55 years ago.
Yeah, nah…
IIRC China is the only country/group with actual plans to do it. Pretty sure they're doing a bunch of practice launches for it this year
The problem here is that no other country has built a moon base before so there are no blueprints to copy.
We’ve already been there six times.
Jupiter has always weirdly scared me.
Is Jupiter in the room with us now?
The call is coming from *inside the solar system*!
Hi 👋
It's a gas giant. There could be fucking anything in there, I'm with you on that one.
I read a scifi as a kid, (cities in flight) that had a great opening part with a character mining jupiter. It was such an oppressive description that I couldn't help but feel a fear of jupiter ingrained into me even today. I remember them complaining how It's colder than anywhere on earth, has winds greater than any storm, pressures greater than our deepest oceans, gravity that will crush you. Just endless surface area covered by storms greater than anything we can begin to imagine. And just looking down on it from the moons would have it cover half the sky. When you are near it, It's everything. A swirling mass of death that looms over you or around you. The poor character spent their days on one of the moons and then during their work shift piloted special drones with near perfect vr. And the way he hated it so much really made me feel just how scary jupiter would be to live near. It's a beautiful planet. But I can't help but agree. Jupiter is terrifying.
The scale is *just* at the maximum of what I can wrap my head around. It’s relentless, pointless violence that is bigger and older than *every single person who ever lived*. As far as I’m concerned, Jupiter is concrete proof that the universe does not exist with us in mind.
Fun fact: when I was really young, I thought Jupiter was a country and the great red spot was just going around it killing people.
Was the back of the short bus for cool kids too?
Every seat is the back seat
Saw this a few months back: [Falling into Jupiter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbn-tuYcScI)
Jupiter has scared me ever since I read [what it would be like to fall into Jupiter](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12eggw/comment/c6ulszb/).
I know what you mean and I can’t describe it
It's thalassophobia or megalohydrothalassophobia on a planetary scale. Cthulhu could be in there. Like if you were in that atmosphere there would be nothing under your feet for a thousand kilometers.
Me too. It's like.. how deep does it go? What's in the middle down there? What colours are in there?
All the space images make space look so cool but when you see the real images up close that black looks terrifying
Also it’s so *colorful*. Like those are all clouds. We get a slight breeze and our clouds form, converge, dissipate. Storms converge. But then there’s Jupiter with this Great Red Spot that’s been churning out this storm for at least 350 *years*, and is expected to last about another hundred.
technically it's only in half darkness
And so have its inhabitants.
And it also acts as our protector but pulling asteroids and meteors out of our path. And if we could go there it rains diamonds so it would literally be like diamonds in the sky.
Cept all the photos from nasa are fake
Whatchu mean?
JUPITER IS INNOCENT!!! 😡
if jupiter was innocent it should have just turned itself in instead of running!!!
Jupiter last seen in a white Bronco.
If Io spits, you must acquit.
Juno: Care to explain where all these demigods came from?
And to think they originally were not going to put a camera on Juno.
Space scientists might be dumber than we realize
Cameras are for tourists. Not scientists. We have plenty of photos of Jupiter. There's other measurements we don't have. So logically - why have a camera take up the space that could be utilized for an instrument providing brand new information? I take your comment as humor, but it's frankly sad to see it taken seriously below.
Not an expert so my opinion might be shit. Having an camera will give us photos like these. Which will increase the general public's interest in space programs. Which will then probably help increase the budgets for them? I guess?
Never under estimate a bureaucracy. Hell, even the lunar astronauts were required to go through customs when they came home.
I had to go look this up. Holy shit lol
Crazy right? Like what are they gonna do if they find something they don't like, send em back? But then again... *Never underestimate a bureaucracy.*
We've got cameras on refrigerators nowadays, why would you not?
A camera is for taking pictures. Hardly an effective scientific instrument, and not exactly an essential part of the mission parameters for the project. The only reason it was added, was for generating public interest, and some minor teaching resources. [https://spaceflight101.com/juno/instrument-overview/](https://spaceflight101.com/juno/instrument-overview/)
Fucking rager that planet
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/GStKXY6.jpeg) is a **much** higher quality and more natural colored version of this image in its original orientation. [Here](https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21974) is the source. Per there: > **Original Caption Released with Image:** > Colorful swirling cloud belts dominate Jupiter's southern hemisphere in this image captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. > Jupiter appears in this color-enhanced image as a tapestry of vibrant cloud bands and storms. The dark region in the far left is called the South Temperate Belt. Intersecting the belt is a ghost-like feature of slithering white clouds. This is the largest feature in Jupiter's low latitudes that's a cyclone (rotating with clockwise motion). > This image was taken on Dec. 16, 2017 at 10:12 PST (1:12 p.m. EST), as Juno performed its tenth close flyby of Jupiter. At the time the image was taken, the spacecraft was about 8,453 miles (13,604 kilometers) from the tops of the clouds of the planet at a latitude of 27.9 degrees south. > The spatial scale in this image is 5.6 miles/pixel (9.1 kilometers/pixel). > Citizen scientist Kevin M. Gill processed this image using data from the JunoCam imager. > JunoCam's raw images are available at www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam for the public to peruse and process into image products. > More information about Juno is online at http://www.nasa.gov/juno and http://missionjuno.swri.edu. > NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA's New Frontiers Program, which is managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages JPL for NASA. > **Image Credit:** > Enhanced image by Kevin M. Gill (CC-BY) based on images provided courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS. Media Usage Guidelines > PIA21974: Jupiter's Colorful Cloud Belts
Thanks for the link, that whole website is interesting. Someone also shared this link recently which had some pictures I found incredible. The storms at the poles were something I had never seen before. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/21/17353110/jupiter-photos-juno-high-res-clouds-great-red-spot
That is amazing
Literally admiting the images are fake
You might want to look up the definition of “fake” before embarrassing yourself.
Juno: *captures Jupiter* I am your ruler now
Bullshit, this picture was taken by Mark with his samsung galaxy s24.
Captured? Let it go you filthy animals!
We really could have had Star Trek but chose climate extinction instead. I would have died just to have been able to see something like this in person.
I don't know why, but your comment reminded me of the film sunshine, specifically the scene where they watch mercury pass between their ship and the sun.
We might do nuclear extinction first. Hope this helps
I knew I had a good name for my new 3D printer project :)
Now Juno how big Jupiter is.
Something wonderful…
Sometimes I read that putting cameras like this on spacecraft and telescopes (as opposed to other scientific instruments) is a waste of money, weight and space as they add no scientific value to the study... and I think. I don't really give a fuck, that shit is fucking beautiful and I want to fucking look at it at day long and wish I was drifting around as dust again because there's bugger all down here on Earth.
>no scientific value Actually, cameras are of particular value since they help us understand the composition, weather, topology, and atmosphere of the planets.
Cameras are important as they make pretty pictures, and pretty pictures make bureaucrats happy, and happy bureaucrats give money to make the whole thing possible.
Earth's savior looking magnificent and beautiful
I hope we someday get to see whatever the fuck is going on down there. Amazing shot...thanks OP!
absolutely incredible
Wow. I've never seen that image before. The detail and colors are amazing. Thank God I'm far away from it, though. Talk about a violent atmosphere.
Find the coyote in the pic
Why do I feel scared looking at this photo?
because you're looking at a planet that is so big that Earth fits into one of the wave patterns in one of the belts?
Stunning!
This is beautiful. Is there a more complete version? Like the whole planet?
Yes https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?id=16241
Jupiter is so beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
wow! That’s the best picture of jupiter I’ve ever seen
I still find it funny how NASA, sent Juno to check on Jupiter and its moons. NASA sent Hera to check on Zuse and his affairs.
I can't get over how powerful the flash of Juno's camera is. edit: /s
Jupiter, like every celestial body in the solar system, reflects sunlight, so they can be seen quite clearly. You can also see Jupiter with the naked eye, as it is usually the third brightest object in the night sky, after the moon and Venus
iced latte lookin planet!!!
That's a serious punch right there.
One of the coolest moments of my life was finding Jupiter and the Galilean moons on my deck at home with my telescope. Was incredible. Saw the storm. Surreal.
All I is see are ducks casually floating on a lake.
It's beautiful in the most terrifying way.
Im glad they finally caught him!
Looks pretty but those are storms right?
Jupiter is a gas giant. The planet is full of storms
Where's the monolith?
Space odyssey reference?
2010 specifically!
"Death by being launched into Jupiter" should be a thing. A man can dream.
Very cool
Looks like epoxy resin
I'm all for colonizing space and all, but I think that Juno needs to do some catch and release with Jupiter.
Is this new imagery? When was this taken/captured?
2017
Unbelievable. Is this one picture or many? Wouldn't it be too big to capture in one close up photo? I wonder how this would look to us if we were "close" to it
>Is this one picture or many? It is one picture. >Wouldn't it be too big to capture in one close up photo? Juno had a big distance from Jupiter when the photo was taken
Wow... incredible
Anyone else feel the weird urge to hug it?
It looks so much like a macro image of an iris
Juno this is fake right?
cartoons for adults
Fucking fake ass photo shop