Posted on 10/11/2021 2:36:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: What would it be like to fly over the largest moon in the Solar System? In June, the robotic Juno spacecraft flew past Jupiter's huge moon Ganymede and took images that have been digitally constructed into a detailed flyby. As the featured video begins, Juno swoops over the two-toned surface of the 2,000-km wide moon, revealing an icy alien landscape filled with grooves and craters. The grooves are likely caused by shifting surface plates, while the craters are caused by violent impacts. Continuing on in its orbit, Juno then performed its 34th close pass over Jupiter's clouds. The digitally-constructed video shows numerous swirling clouds in the north, colorful planet-circling zones and bands across the middle -- featuring several white-oval clouds from the String of Pearls, and finally more swirling clouds in the south. Next September, Juno is scheduled to make a close pass over another of Jupiter's large moons: Europa.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
Van Gogh must have had a good telescope.
Or traveled by astral projection . . . . Heh. :-)
Are the flashes of light in Jupiter's clouds lightening?
That is a Death Star relic that has been bombarded over time by meteors.
a m a z i n g !
Exactly who I thought of while watching the video, but with him on LSD while painting that.
So it’s a nasa animation? Pretty.
Extremely great. Anyone know why my up-to-date ClipGrab application will not record it?
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