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NASA Shows the First 3D Imagery Captured of Jupiter's Atmosphere
- TheJoeMan 5y agoIt seems the first image in the article is: “views of Jupiter in (left to right) infrared and visible light taken by the Gemini North telescope and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, respectively.” Any links to Juno pics?
- dotancohen 5y agoThat picture stopped my in my tracks. It looks like Jupiter started fusing hydrogen. I thought for a second that I didn't loose a year to COVID, rather a billion.
- perihelions 5y agoI'm suddenly very curious what a marginally-fusing brown dwarf looks like on its surface. Are the cloudtops roiling with convection, like a boiling pot?
- dotancohen 5y agoI am hopeful that our grandchildren might learn the answer to this!
- Gravityloss 5y agoSeems we know about exoplanets that are 7 times the radius of Jupiter, but we don't know if they're brown dwarves or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_exoplanets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_exoplanets
- diggernet 5y agoI've heard Jupiter described as a failed star, and that it emits more energy than it receives from the sun. That IR photo sure seems to support the idea.
- space-chess-com 5y agoWe want to use some these images for the next version of our game. Wondering are there any copyright issues since Nasa is a public repository. store@space-chess.com
- joe-collins 5y agoIANAL, but the gist seems to be "don't use the logo, don't claim we endorsed you, and don't use photos of people." https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/guidelines/index.html
- dsign 5y agoI think Jupiter is utterly useless[^1][^2]. Philosophical question: if somebody came up with a way to disassemble (not just mine) Jupiter for materials, would that be ethical? Can an argument be made that "it's such a virgin ecosystem that it must be kept pristine?" [^1] Piling enough tech, one could perhaps live in its atmosphere. One could even do so to escape some despotic regime firing high-energy lasers to any in-system object. But that's a little far-fetched. [^2] Maybe it keeps some bodies from reaching the inner solar system and thus Earth, but in the considered scenario, there would be plenty of other ways to do so, if the issue is at all relevant.
- patrickwalton 5y agoAs an object of study Jupiter is definitely unique in our proximity and valuable. Generally, it seems strange to think some aspect of nature has to be valuable.