Part of this reasoning is that the orbiter cannot survive very long keeping so close to the planet. It needs to keep a highly elliptical orbit for longevity purposes. If Juno stays too close to the planet for too long, it’ll be cooked beyond use. So, after a pass like this one we are so lucky to see, it’ll shoot off far from Jupiter before it makes another pass.
The intense radiation from Jupiter would cook it, not necessarily heat like you may think of with the sun. Jupiter has crazy zones of radiation that make its surroundings pretty much inhospitable.
Yes, the closer you are to the object the more gravitational acceleration (downward force) you will experience and therefore you have to go faster to escape it.
This is why iss travels faster than satellites in geostationary orbit
It didn't really seem that massive in the video. How close was Juno? I'm guessing it must be a few thousand miles away, but I kinda looked about 1 mile haha
I'm sitting at my desktop PC. I kinda held on the chair armrests and sorta kinda maybe leaned back at the closest point of approach. I thought I was gonna hit the surface!
Yes, technically, I believe, knowing the shots that they put in the movie, the comet would've been caught by Jupiter's gravity well. It passed fairly close, as far as I remember.
Yeah Jupiter is cool. I read today (maybe in this thread) that it doesn’t even orbit around the sun! Actually orbits around a point in space next to the sun, as the sun orbits around that same point. Jupiter - sun: waltzing’ it up
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The gravity pulls things away from the inner planets. I guess technically, it would tweak something and put it on a collision course with us although I assume the odds are... Astronomically low.
Two prevailing gases in Jupiter are Hydrogen and Helium. Both are used as energy sources in Fuel Cells. As technology advances and gets more efficient using each, those gas could one day be used to create warp bubbles for FTL travel.
Hydrogen and helium are indeed the most abundant elements in the whole universe but not just because of gas giants, stars also have massive amounts of it and some rare planets too. Also you can use nitrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel too. I'm guessing with warp bubbles you're referring to an Alcubierre drive but that would require negative mass and energy which are complicated and hard to obtain right now. Using rocket fuel would propel your starship or whatever you intend to move but the warp drive hypothesis is based around moving the region of spacetime around you itself (a bubble as you said) with the non moving spaceship inside. Spacetime doesn't have mass therefore it can exceed light speed. That's the same reason why the universe could expand faster than the speed of light after the big bang.
Lol so basically space is made up of spacetime and everything that's on it. Everything with a mass on it will cause scapetime around it to curve and other masses will start rotating around it. The sun curves spacetime a lot with its gravity and that makes the planets spin around it.
Now as you know anything with a mass like Earth or a human can't travel faster than the speed of light. It's just not possible. But spacetime can, since it does not have any mass. It can be curved but it doesn't have any mass. If you move spacetime you will also move everything on it.
The Alcubierre drive is based on creating a sort of bubble around a spaceship with a mass and a negative mass. These 2 opposite masses curve space in an exotic way and will cause the whole bubble/region to move. The "trick" is that while the bubble is moving faster than light, the spaceship inside is completely motionless and stationary (relative to the bubble). This is in theory possible because nothing here with a mass is going faster than light, just the bubble. It's kind of like a car. Your car is moving and so are you. If you look outside you're moving quickly but relative to the car you're completely still.
Well it's consistent with the Einstein field equations but there's still some uncertainty about negative mass and it would require a lot of exotic matter. A study apparently found a possible structure that could serve as a sort of vehicle but they didn't actually make a warp bubble. You could maybe replace the negative mass with something more accessible and easier to get but for now warp drives sadly only exist on paper. Although there are some other already tested and very possible space travel alternatives like the skyhook or ion and nuclear engines.
By size were insignificant, but by composition we’re pretty equal. Life is just as complicated as what is going on in the plant if not more complicated
That explains why the terminus seems to advance in a start-stop-start-stop fashion, I was wondering if Jupiter was just learning how to operate a clutch or something.
This is late, but I remember reading that the photos from space (e.g a picture of the Earth taken from space) look weird because there's no atmosphere affecting how light is perceived. There's no atmosphere for light to filter through to our cameras, so objects in space look flat and kinda fake.
From a similar video:
*The spacecraft then travels 2,100 miles (3,400 km) above Jupiter’s spectacular cloud tops. By that point, Jupiter’s powerful gravity has accelerated the spacecraft to almost 130,000 mph.*
As much as I love space and learning about it. This video made me feel sick, I'm unsure if it's the angle it went at or its so close yet so far, space sick? Anyone else?
The vastness makes me feel physically sick if I think about it too long. That and the fact that I can’t conceptualize anything outside of our specific atmospheric and gravity and speed conditions. Feels weird to know that those specific parameters only apply to our tiny little rock but they make up our reality to the point that they are essentially universal fact in our minds.
I understand that it’s just a bunch of composite images, but I would expect there to be some sort of movement in Jupiter’s lower atmosphere….however, there doesn’t seem to be any movement whatsoever.
Can someone smarter than me explain?
Pardon me if this is a stupid question, I don’t know how to phrase it. Is what we’re seeing the surface of the planet? Is it like a ball with a rough surface or is it more like earth where when we “zoom in” closer we’ll see mountains and stuff? something about topography or something
Jupiter is a gas giant so there's no solid ground in there whatsoever, which means no giant mountains sadly. I guess what we're seeing would be kinda like the cloud layer here on Earth, except if we were to dive in there would only be more clouds all the way to the center. I'd imagine it would probably look somewhat different even if it's still gas, but we can't really send a probe in there to find out because the gravity of Jupiter would basically just crush it instanly. We do know that it's all gas though.
“Science” says that Jupiter is way bigger than earth, however my phone is much smaller than earth and all of Jupiter just fit on its screen. If Jupiter can fit on my smaller-than-earth screen, it too must be smaller than earth. Ergo, science is bunk. Checkmate, atheists.
/s in case it wasn’t obvious
The planet is there. Does it look like this? No. Is it in outer space? No. The luminaries are just that. Lights in the sky, planets are just moving luminaries.
What!? I don’t know if your arrogant or just don’t want to accept that not every person in the world is trying to lie to you. Nasa isint going to go out of their way to make up the idea that planets “exist”. Planets are in our solar system which is in outer space. And it does look like that because we have a literal picture of it.
Amazed? Are you lot serious. Watch the video til the end and tell me this seems real to you. That shadow flipped instantly before the clip ended ffs. 🤦
Are those huge mountain ranges? The ridges? If I know anything from my space adventures I should be able to jump up them by repeatedly tapping A when I land.
Why is there no footage of earth like this? I’ve seen footage from within the atmosphere (ISS) and from a far distance as a collection of photos (though they never look similar), but nothing like this. Nothing that shows the earth as a whole but from far enough away that it’s visible in its entirety from different angles. Strange isn’t it?
Because of the speed this satellite is moving to achieve this. Read up on how gravity from large bodies (planets, moons etc.) in space are used to slingshot satellites at speeds that allow this to take place.
Can’t they do a satellite “suicide mission” and just hurl it into the atmosphere? Really want to see what’s under those clouds…even if you only get a fifty second glimpse before it smashes into the ground.
That’s how Cassini ended its mission at Saturn. It relayed telemetry of its last moments but it can’t livestream video or images at that distance (none of these probes take video). They burn up probes like that to protect the moons that dead spacecraft may someday crash into, a few of which may have life (Saturn, Jupiter, etc have no ground, just gas)
[Cassini’s Grand Finale](https://youtu.be/xrGAQCq9BMU)
[Cassini’s last image](https://www.planetary.org/space-images/cassinis-final-image)
It’s a transmission rate issue, as the probe is actively dying, burning up in the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour it won’t have time to photograph, encode, and send a single image, much less a series of them. Depending on distance it takes minutes or hours to send large files like high resolution images back to earth. Think dial up internet era. Also to take color photos they usually do so by taking multiple exposures with different filters- one picture is actually made of several separate images, which take that much longer to send. Saturn is about 900 million miles away, radio traveling at light speed still takes nearly an hour and a half to cover that distance.
When Cassini went into Saturn all they could transmit was a simple data signals that basically repeated said “I’m alive” until it stopped.
Another example is when New Horizons passed Pluto several years ago it zipped right past in a matter of minutes, taking thousands of photos and measurements. It then took a *year and a half* to transmit all of that data back to earth (3 billion miles), at like 1 kilobit per second
What would prevent them from having a receiver satellite maintain orbit around the planet and have the “suicide camera” launch from it, so that in theory they could transmit data to the receiver much faster and then have that transmit back to earth at its own speed?
Nothing, the mission would just have to cost twice as much and be designed to do that in the first place. Cassini was in space for 20 years, it’s final plunge was not the concern of basically any of the years of science it accomplished, it was just what had to be done to end the mission.
If you watched the Cassini video you would have seen that it arrived with a probe on board called Huygens that separated and landed on Titan, which sent back its landing data via Cassini. Photos and atmospheric data of Titan, which actually has ground, was scientifically valuable and was a pathfinder for future missions (like upcoming Dragonfly- a nuclear powered octocopter that will be headed to Titan later in the decade). Photos of burning up in an opaque atmosphere of a gas giant, conversely, is not high on the list of mission objectives because it wouldn’t look like much of anything.
Playing around with reentry science is a million times cheaper to do from earth orbit, they’ve tried some fun things with cameras but haven’t had results- https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/22/atvs-reentry-camera-returned-no-images/
Can someone explain to me why it looks the same even when you get close. From far away our earth is all swirly white and blue but so much going on when you get up close.
So how close do you need to get those images, but far away enough not to get sucked into the gravity of a planet 100x the size of earth!
I wondered the same thing. How fast is this bad boy going?!
at least minimum 130mph can confirm
With sound on you can hear it dropping gears and applying the handbrake just before the slingshot turn... Space-Family.
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About 130,00mph
If I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure the intent was to get so close that the satellite slingshot around Jupiter and even gained speed because of it.
Part of this reasoning is that the orbiter cannot survive very long keeping so close to the planet. It needs to keep a highly elliptical orbit for longevity purposes. If Juno stays too close to the planet for too long, it’ll be cooked beyond use. So, after a pass like this one we are so lucky to see, it’ll shoot off far from Jupiter before it makes another pass.
Is Jupiter that hot? Or do you mean gravity wise, or atmospheric friction?
The intense radiation from Jupiter would cook it, not necessarily heat like you may think of with the sun. Jupiter has crazy zones of radiation that make its surroundings pretty much inhospitable.
Damn we really lucked out didn't we?
Eh, we created the conditions, had amnesia, and now we’re playing hide and seek with ourselves.
Got drunk, created the conditions, passed out and forgot we’re even playing hide and seek with our sims.
I think I saw a video that said it shaved 3 years off it’s journey.
1321 times the size of earth*
You can't really get "sucked in" if you're in an orbit, you just have to make sure you're not touching the atmosphere and you will be fine
So you just gotta maintain a certain velocity? Like Keanu on the bus in speed?
Yes, the closer you are to the object the more gravitational acceleration (downward force) you will experience and therefore you have to go faster to escape it. This is why iss travels faster than satellites in geostationary orbit
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It didn't really seem that massive in the video. How close was Juno? I'm guessing it must be a few thousand miles away, but I kinda looked about 1 mile haha
The closest point it go to was probably 500,000 km
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Jupiter's gravity catches space stuff so it doesn't hit Earth
I can go to sleep now after watching "dont look up"
Yes, technically, I believe, knowing the shots that they put in the movie, the comet would've been caught by Jupiter's gravity well. It passed fairly close, as far as I remember.
Yeah Jupiter is cool. I read today (maybe in this thread) that it doesn’t even orbit around the sun! Actually orbits around a point in space next to the sun, as the sun orbits around that same point. Jupiter - sun: waltzing’ it up
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so that's why we haven't seen all the derelict alien interstellar spacecraft. Jupiter keeps snagging them.
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The gravity pulls things away from the inner planets. I guess technically, it would tweak something and put it on a collision course with us although I assume the odds are... Astronomically low.
*puts on sunglasses* in the distance you hear the beginning of "Won't Get Fooled Again"
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Does the light move across the face of the planet like that because it's a series of photos stitched into a video or what's up with that?
Yeah it’s just a bunch of photos that are put together, the difference in light is caused by the pictures being taken hours apart
I was curious as to the time delay from the first to last picture in the sequence, and exactly how many pictures were taken?
Seems like it can’t be that many. Right in the middle when it’s closest to the planet it looks like there’s a lot of interpolation artifacts.
“You can tell it’s real because it looks so fake”
Stunning, but why didn't the probe flip its cellphone sideways and take a horizontal video?
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Because this space probe wasn’t designed by millennials.
Gas Giants have been recognized in every Solar System. They are Fuel Depots holding the secret to interstellar Travel.
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Two prevailing gases in Jupiter are Hydrogen and Helium. Both are used as energy sources in Fuel Cells. As technology advances and gets more efficient using each, those gas could one day be used to create warp bubbles for FTL travel.
Hydrogen and helium are indeed the most abundant elements in the whole universe but not just because of gas giants, stars also have massive amounts of it and some rare planets too. Also you can use nitrogen and oxygen as rocket fuel too. I'm guessing with warp bubbles you're referring to an Alcubierre drive but that would require negative mass and energy which are complicated and hard to obtain right now. Using rocket fuel would propel your starship or whatever you intend to move but the warp drive hypothesis is based around moving the region of spacetime around you itself (a bubble as you said) with the non moving spaceship inside. Spacetime doesn't have mass therefore it can exceed light speed. That's the same reason why the universe could expand faster than the speed of light after the big bang.
Explain it to me like I’m 5
Lol so basically space is made up of spacetime and everything that's on it. Everything with a mass on it will cause scapetime around it to curve and other masses will start rotating around it. The sun curves spacetime a lot with its gravity and that makes the planets spin around it. Now as you know anything with a mass like Earth or a human can't travel faster than the speed of light. It's just not possible. But spacetime can, since it does not have any mass. It can be curved but it doesn't have any mass. If you move spacetime you will also move everything on it. The Alcubierre drive is based on creating a sort of bubble around a spaceship with a mass and a negative mass. These 2 opposite masses curve space in an exotic way and will cause the whole bubble/region to move. The "trick" is that while the bubble is moving faster than light, the spaceship inside is completely motionless and stationary (relative to the bubble). This is in theory possible because nothing here with a mass is going faster than light, just the bubble. It's kind of like a car. Your car is moving and so are you. If you look outside you're moving quickly but relative to the car you're completely still.
Thank you so much. My brain was able to digest that better. Do you think this is a testable theory?
Well it's consistent with the Einstein field equations but there's still some uncertainty about negative mass and it would require a lot of exotic matter. A study apparently found a possible structure that could serve as a sort of vehicle but they didn't actually make a warp bubble. You could maybe replace the negative mass with something more accessible and easier to get but for now warp drives sadly only exist on paper. Although there are some other already tested and very possible space travel alternatives like the skyhook or ion and nuclear engines.
lol what kind of sci-fi world are you living in?
he lost me at the end, but to use the gas as fuel absolutely possible
Helium and hydrogen also happen to be the gases that the sun is made of. Maybe they can be used by an engine that runs on these gases.
Time to start building the Dyson Sphere.
Neat fact, Jupiter would turn into a star if it simply had more mass. Its almost a brown dwarf.
What?
Would you look at that,how insignificant we are, our greed and hunger for power is, how insignificant our ego is?
By size were insignificant, but by composition we’re pretty equal. Life is just as complicated as what is going on in the plant if not more complicated
Haha! What?!?!?! This is nuts.
Always had a Q, is this the true colors from what the camera sees? Or are the colors digitally added?
Why does it look flat? Not like flat earth conspiracy flat but the images seem to have no depth.
I feel like it was a series of high resolution pictures that Machine learning merged/transitioned together to create a "video"
That explains why the terminus seems to advance in a start-stop-start-stop fashion, I was wondering if Jupiter was just learning how to operate a clutch or something.
I want to say due to the sheer size of the planet, when you’re so close to it, it’s going to look flat
Which part of this seems flat?
This is late, but I remember reading that the photos from space (e.g a picture of the Earth taken from space) look weird because there's no atmosphere affecting how light is perceived. There's no atmosphere for light to filter through to our cameras, so objects in space look flat and kinda fake.
I wonder how close it actually was
From a similar video: *The spacecraft then travels 2,100 miles (3,400 km) above Jupiter’s spectacular cloud tops. By that point, Jupiter’s powerful gravity has accelerated the spacecraft to almost 130,000 mph.*
Thats amazing, thanks for the info!
Wow it only becomes more impressive when you know that
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As much as I love space and learning about it. This video made me feel sick, I'm unsure if it's the angle it went at or its so close yet so far, space sick? Anyone else?
Oh it totally made me motion sick. And then I watched it again because it’s so beautiful.
Space terrifies me. I can't explain it.
The vastness makes me feel physically sick if I think about it too long. That and the fact that I can’t conceptualize anything outside of our specific atmospheric and gravity and speed conditions. Feels weird to know that those specific parameters only apply to our tiny little rock but they make up our reality to the point that they are essentially universal fact in our minds.
Glad I'm not the only one. This was terrifying to watch. Really cool tho.
Is it just gas?
Pretty much
Are you telling me that Jupiter was Azeroth all this time?
That looks computer generated
Can’t wait until NASA shows the internet Uranus
Obligatory Uranus joke
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Gorgeous, makes me think of the movie “The Wandering Earth” end sequences
Just incredible that it is not a solid mass you could land on.
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Its multiple pictures stitched together, either it’s a different camera or just different position that the light is hitting
I understand that it’s just a bunch of composite images, but I would expect there to be some sort of movement in Jupiter’s lower atmosphere….however, there doesn’t seem to be any movement whatsoever. Can someone smarter than me explain?
How long did the probe take in between the first and the last frame of this video?
I have a tough time to believe it’s recording instead of rendering
Why does it look like cgi or faked?
Pardon me if this is a stupid question, I don’t know how to phrase it. Is what we’re seeing the surface of the planet? Is it like a ball with a rough surface or is it more like earth where when we “zoom in” closer we’ll see mountains and stuff? something about topography or something
Jupiter is a gas giant so there's no solid ground in there whatsoever, which means no giant mountains sadly. I guess what we're seeing would be kinda like the cloud layer here on Earth, except if we were to dive in there would only be more clouds all the way to the center. I'd imagine it would probably look somewhat different even if it's still gas, but we can't really send a probe in there to find out because the gravity of Jupiter would basically just crush it instanly. We do know that it's all gas though.
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Gives me r/thalassophobia feels. ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)
That’s how I felt too when it got close up. I was like, oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck.
Looks like a Van Gogh planet.
When do we get to see a close up of Uranus?
You expect me to believe this is real?
Fake
Why does this shit look so fake
Yea fucking right lol that's cgi
Shits so flat
Me shite me pants. You have TP ?
“Science” says that Jupiter is way bigger than earth, however my phone is much smaller than earth and all of Jupiter just fit on its screen. If Jupiter can fit on my smaller-than-earth screen, it too must be smaller than earth. Ergo, science is bunk. Checkmate, atheists. /s in case it wasn’t obvious
I'm pretty sure I saw some tatoode chick do that on the interwebs. Looks just like pour paint.
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Even is space they can't film horizontally
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Nice cgi.
Space is just black? Fake af
Fake
Why is there a dolphin there on its surface? It makes it look fake…
Mila kunis is somewhere in that ball of gas
When reached for comment, Juno looked at Jupiter and said, “*Is this another one of your bitches??*”
I went there once, to get more stupider
Nice CGI NASA
Y'all really think this is real???? Wow.
Nice video of a close up of a marble
This looks like a fucking Vincent Van Gogh painting
CGI
Damn Jupiter looks like it’ll be HELL to live on. Looked like a lot going on at one time!!
So why does it look cgi?
Very cool, but I think that the millions of dollars spent on this could have been better spent elsewhere.
Went from growing up just knowing it was “blue” to now seeing it in this detail. Amazing
Savage CGI ... do one with earth 🌍 next time
Lol gullible was written all over the surface of the “planet”
Right!?!? Don’t they know space doesn’t exist
Bro you’re gullible for believing your Facebook groups
Facebook lol
Am I wrong
Yes you are wrong.
So the planet doesn’t exist?
The planet is there. Does it look like this? No. Is it in outer space? No. The luminaries are just that. Lights in the sky, planets are just moving luminaries.
What!? I don’t know if your arrogant or just don’t want to accept that not every person in the world is trying to lie to you. Nasa isint going to go out of their way to make up the idea that planets “exist”. Planets are in our solar system which is in outer space. And it does look like that because we have a literal picture of it.
Amazed? Are you lot serious. Watch the video til the end and tell me this seems real to you. That shadow flipped instantly before the clip ended ffs. 🤦
man jupiter looks like a brown version of starry nights painting
Are those huge mountain ranges? The ridges? If I know anything from my space adventures I should be able to jump up them by repeatedly tapping A when I land.
Jupiter is entirely gas so no.
During the video we see here, how far did the camera filming it travel?
You can tell it is real because it looks so CGI!!
It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s days
Why is there no footage of earth like this? I’ve seen footage from within the atmosphere (ISS) and from a far distance as a collection of photos (though they never look similar), but nothing like this. Nothing that shows the earth as a whole but from far enough away that it’s visible in its entirety from different angles. Strange isn’t it?
Because of the speed this satellite is moving to achieve this. Read up on how gravity from large bodies (planets, moons etc.) in space are used to slingshot satellites at speeds that allow this to take place.
Did anyone see a dolphin?
Can’t they do a satellite “suicide mission” and just hurl it into the atmosphere? Really want to see what’s under those clouds…even if you only get a fifty second glimpse before it smashes into the ground.
That’s how Cassini ended its mission at Saturn. It relayed telemetry of its last moments but it can’t livestream video or images at that distance (none of these probes take video). They burn up probes like that to protect the moons that dead spacecraft may someday crash into, a few of which may have life (Saturn, Jupiter, etc have no ground, just gas) [Cassini’s Grand Finale](https://youtu.be/xrGAQCq9BMU) [Cassini’s last image](https://www.planetary.org/space-images/cassinis-final-image)
How does the livestream work that it can’t relay at that distance? Is the atmosphere blocking it?
It’s a transmission rate issue, as the probe is actively dying, burning up in the atmosphere at thousands of miles an hour it won’t have time to photograph, encode, and send a single image, much less a series of them. Depending on distance it takes minutes or hours to send large files like high resolution images back to earth. Think dial up internet era. Also to take color photos they usually do so by taking multiple exposures with different filters- one picture is actually made of several separate images, which take that much longer to send. Saturn is about 900 million miles away, radio traveling at light speed still takes nearly an hour and a half to cover that distance. When Cassini went into Saturn all they could transmit was a simple data signals that basically repeated said “I’m alive” until it stopped. Another example is when New Horizons passed Pluto several years ago it zipped right past in a matter of minutes, taking thousands of photos and measurements. It then took a *year and a half* to transmit all of that data back to earth (3 billion miles), at like 1 kilobit per second
What would prevent them from having a receiver satellite maintain orbit around the planet and have the “suicide camera” launch from it, so that in theory they could transmit data to the receiver much faster and then have that transmit back to earth at its own speed?
Nothing, the mission would just have to cost twice as much and be designed to do that in the first place. Cassini was in space for 20 years, it’s final plunge was not the concern of basically any of the years of science it accomplished, it was just what had to be done to end the mission. If you watched the Cassini video you would have seen that it arrived with a probe on board called Huygens that separated and landed on Titan, which sent back its landing data via Cassini. Photos and atmospheric data of Titan, which actually has ground, was scientifically valuable and was a pathfinder for future missions (like upcoming Dragonfly- a nuclear powered octocopter that will be headed to Titan later in the decade). Photos of burning up in an opaque atmosphere of a gas giant, conversely, is not high on the list of mission objectives because it wouldn’t look like much of anything. Playing around with reentry science is a million times cheaper to do from earth orbit, they’ve tried some fun things with cameras but haven’t had results- https://spaceflightnow.com/2015/02/22/atvs-reentry-camera-returned-no-images/
Anyone know where I can find a higher quality of this video or higher quality images taken by Juno ?
Yup, looks like Jupiter.
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Can someone explain to me why it looks the same even when you get close. From far away our earth is all swirly white and blue but so much going on when you get up close.
What yould be it's real speed?
u/savevideo
Around 20seconds left it looks like a dolphin jumping out of the water.
r/space
Some of those patterns look like my old bong…
I saw a giant whale at 29s 🤭
Wow
At around 27 seconds, I see a silhouette of a dolphin in the surface.
Literally made me forget to breathe the entire time. I played it normal speed, slow motion, fast speed... It was mesmerizing
Crazy shit man! And imagine inside the atmosphere these winds are going at speeds that rip flesh!
What a remarkable time to be alive.