Posted on 01/11/2018 2:21:52 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
A stunning new Nasa image shows raging storms on Jupiter with clouds that stretch for thousands of miles - and it looks just like an oil painting.
Nasa's Juno spacecraft was a little more than one Earth diameter from Jupiter - or 8,292 miles (13,345 kilometres) - when it captured this mind-bending view of the planet's tumultuous atmosphere.
The incredible colour-enhanced image was captured at a latitude of 48.9 degrees and depicts vasts swirling cloud formations that travel at about 129,000 mph (60 km/s) over the gas giant planet's surface.
The spacecraft, which has been orbiting the planet since 2016, took the image during a flyby on 16th December 2017 at 9:43 a.m. PST (12:43 p.m. EST).
'Jupiter completely fills the image, with only a hint of the terminator (where daylight fades to night) in the upper right corner, and no visible limb (the curved edge of the planet)', a Nasa spokesperson said.
Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran processed this image using data from the JunoCam images.
The space agency also released additional images showing the view from high above Jupiter's clouds. They were processed by citizen scientists David Marriott and Kevin Gill.
Last month the space agency showed a similar oil painting-like image of the planet taken from just 11,700 miles (19,000 km) from the tops of Jupiter’s clouds — roughly the distance between New York City and Perth, Australia.
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Why would you think it crazy?
It’s one of the most visually stunning lines of poetry ever written.
The mind that produced that was capable of pure pop culture banality
(of which he thankfully used only a modicum) and at the same time
(sometimes in the same song) he could indulge in the sublime.
The poem in question is worthy of a Renaissance Master.
Did you see this!
Wait: you’re referencing a master?
I thought you just made that up.
I am cowed.
PS: Which master?
"Horse Latitudes"
When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over
Jim Morrison
Well hey, that’s the guy whose dad was general during the Vietnam era!
Thank you for curing me of a small portion of my ignorance.
Many thanks.
Somebody forgot to flush.
As they were thrown overboard.
Yes - from Rush’s 2112. A mix of nerdiness, free thinking and rebellion - thought it fit well with Free Republic!
Awesome!
Thanks for sharing.
Navy, actually.
Morrison’s father was Rear Admiral George Morrison, veteran of WWII
and Korea who was Commander of the US Naval Forces in the Gulf of Tonkin
when the “Gulf of Tonkin Incident” started the big escalation of the VietNam War.
LOL
Perfect
Absolutely glorious. Much thanks.
Jupiter Space Porn
Thanks for posting that :-)
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