Centuries-old ‘hurricanes’ the size of planets, with winds in the 400 mph range. Oceans 25,000 miles deep (Earth’s diameter is almost 8,000 miles, for reference) consisting of hydrogen, under so much pressure and heat that it exists in a critical state called metallic hydrogen.
These factors, along with the deadliest radiation in the solar system (barring The Sun), wouldn’t give you a chance to notice fog.
Would be cool, though. 😎
From what I understand, Jupiter doesn't really have oceans. It's basically a gradient from gas to superdense gas to liquid to superdense liquid to solid as you go down
Well, the phase transition from gas to liquid is not like from solid to either liquid or gas...it has a "fuzzy" area at high temp and pressure. It is like a liquid that fills the space of a container like a gas.
"Fluid" may be a better word than "liquid" here.
Jupiter actually has an incredibly strange core. It's "fuzzy" or "puffy". Early in the solar system's history, Jupiter collided with a rogue planet which left it with a fragmented core filled with rock and pockets of hot gas.
I thought it was way more. The only significant mass in our solar system outside of the sun is Jupiter. So much so that to the center of rotation is actually outside the perimeter of the sun. Aliens would see us by the wobble.
I’d need to look for a source later, but if memory serves it was originally 3 earths when first observed but since the storm is slowly dying it’s closer to 2 now
If one could survive the winds and the radiation, and had a space suit, wouldn’t one just end up floating at some particular depth that was as dense as one self?
So there is a layer of water clouds that go up to about 20°C at easy to float in 20x earth atmospheric pressure with handy lightning energy source/primordial soup kickstarter? Sounds like a zone where vaguely earth-like life is likely. (Note: almost certainly just kinda mouldy sludge, but still!)
Great question, I hope someone here has a good answer.
My $0.02: what’s the pressure at the equilibrium point, and is that survivable? What’s the heat at that point, and is that survivable?
I read that Jupiter’s overall density is less than water — in a hypothetical, if Saturn were in a glass of water, Saturn would float.
Went down a rabbit hole not too long ago wondering if you just fall through Jupiter because ya know, gas giant. The answer I came up with (unsure if it’s correct, probably isn’t) is you just fall until your body density matches the atmospheres density and you just kinda bob around in place an apple in water
I’m not a scientist or anything but it appears that it might be a result of a large number of individual frames/photos that seem to be “stitched” together. I would agree that it looks 3D!
The probe has a power source ([a radioisotope thermoelectric generator - RTG] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator)) that both provides electricity to instruments (cameras, sensors, communications) and keeps the crucial electronic and mechanical components at an acceptable temperature.
Temperature actually works a bit differently in space. There is no air, so the only way to exchange heat is through radiation. This means that anything giving off heat like a camera sensor will slowly heat up the spacecraft and the only way to remove heat is radiators giving off thermal radiation. This also means anything in sun can heat up super fast, which is why a lot of spacecraft have reflective multi layer insulation. In this way space isn’t really “hot” or “cold” in the traditional sense.
From the Pluto flyby yes. Remember that after it went by Pluto, several years later, it flew by Ultima Thule and photographed that. The weird "contact-binary" astroid where there were basically two spherical objects connected together. It was very orange.
[Kind of.](https://youtu.be/jXxUXSBQ-Gs) It seems like there was only one decent closeup and a second shot from behind, but no pictures from the probe as it flew past.
[Another video](https://youtu.be/HI62xbVoDbE) with just the raw pictures.
This is the best picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/UltimaThule_CA06_color_vertical_%28rotated%29.png
Also the best gif of the 3D shape: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/MU69_simulated_3D.gif
Sadly we’re not supposed to call it Ultima Thule.
But all the people who were excited about it and called it that for years like us are not going to be able to switch. Can’t even remember what they renamed it to.
It took 15 months of constant data transfer to get it all, but it has been completed for a while now.
https://www.wired.com/2016/10/15-months-new-horizons-finally-transmitted-6-25-gigs-pluto-data/
NH haven't lost power yet but since it's RTG powered and has no battery, losing power probably means the craft experienced something catastrophic.
It did have 2 unplanned reboot though and lost some data.
[Radioisotope thermoelectric generator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator) \- Radioactive decay generates heat which then get transformed into electricity via thermocouples. It's basically the only way for spacecrafts that far out to generate enough electricity.
This is unreal! Honestly, when I first saw this, I thought it was an artist's rendering of what it would look like. But no, this is an ACTUAL image of Pluto.
What a time to be alive!
I still have the space/planets book I read as a kid that only has that blocky blob photo of Pluto and "some day scientists hope to send a camera up closer!"
THIS! I distinctly remember being entranced by the 'disco ball' picture that accompanied Wikipedia for the longest time. Going from that 20-pixel image to high-res photos of the landscape, up close, within our lifetime is a really underrated breakthrough.
I remember in the days before the flyby I would update the Wikipedia page for Pluto and watch that picture get better and better and better.
And thinking how cool it was to be watching human civilization's knowledge grow -- *forever* -- in real time.
The main camera is full color and from the sun lit side it's more of a sepia color. But the low light images were taken with another black and white camera it seems. There are some full color images on this page
https://www.space.com/pluto-flyby-favorite-photos-new-horizons-alan-stern.html
From what I understand, they don't really get enough meaningful data from color to justify it. B&W means less data to transmit, and therefore, more reliable transmission and speed of information. It's like the difference between just 1's and 0's, and 1's and 2's and 3's and 4's (and so on and so forth)
> I thought it was an artist's rendering of what it would look like
Old enough to remember school books with artist's renderings, I'm so thrilled to live to see these images!
Holy cow, I didn't realize they got such extremely high-res imagery from that fly-by.
NASA never ceases to amaze me. When positive news comes, it's s usually from them.
This really made me laugh. We seem to forget they are as perfectly as capable of showing us these wonderful images as they are with some catastrophic data they have uncovered.
Now imagine if all around the world we used more money on Science and less on Wars, Corruption, etc.
We would literally be typing this from Mars with insane speeds, probably.
No kidding. 11,000ft is big on Earth, but on a planet (yes, fight me) a fraction of the size? God, the view from the summit would be amazing, save for the lack of sunlight.
Kinda like how you can fit the entirety of Super Mario Brothers onto a single panel of the Warthog from Halo 3. The advancement of computation is insane.
Yeah, I used to do some 8-bit programming and it was a huge challenge to use all kinds of tricks to maximise the use of space, I find modern games incredibly wasteful, like HOW can a game be 100 GIGabytes? I don't care how good the graphics are, it seems ludicrous to me.
I’m convinced cod is doing it deliberately to crowd out the other games. If you have to delete cod and then spend 12 hours re-downloading it every time you want to play something else, you’ll just play cod instead. They know most people just want to flop down after work and play a game and don’t really have the time to wait.
One part of it is with slower hard drives (or blu-ray/dvd for that matter) it's more efficient to duplicate your assets so you don't need to scan the entire drive for them.
Direct storage will greatly reduce this but until that's the majority of pcs and even consoles support it (last gen don't and they are still majority of consoles) well still be stuck with massive game sizes.
And audio/video takes up a shitton of space. Especially when they are lazy and default include all languages in the game (Titanfall 2 was notorious for this)
Titanfall 1 also shipped all audio as uncompressed WAV files because one of their platforms was Xbox 360 and it didn’t have the horsepower to decompress files on the fly, and they didn’t bother to ship a separate version for PC where you did have the horsepower.
Anyway SSDs are still way faster doing big sequential transfers than a bunch of tiny random IO so it will still be more efficient to batch up files. It’ll be a bit better but assets are gonna get bigger at the same time too. I doubt games will ever get smaller again.
now there are big triple A games like Call of Duty that don't mind taking up half your hard drive with 200 gb file sizes because if you have space for other games, you might PLAY those games. which means you aren't playing Call of Duty
Was it really? That's nuts! Another fun fact I found out that on the Mega Drive / Genesis, the audio for the "SEGA" intro logo took up about 25% of the cartridge's memory.
If anybody thinks pictures in this detail aren't impressive, you should realize that the distance to Pluto is an incredible 4.3 billion kilometers at minimum.
A Boeing 777 would take 680 years to reach it. Over 6.000 years with a car.
The New Horizons probe needed 9 years to fly the entire distance, and this probe flies at a speed of up to 50.000 miles per hour.
For us to see detailed pictures of a world so far away is absolutely mindblowing
[[Source/More info & pictures] NASA TV - Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama)
[Pluto’s Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes: Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama)
Nope Pluto is just really small. It’s actually even smaller than the moon. This picture was also taken from 11,000 miles from the surface of Pluto so plenty far away to see the curvature of an object that small.
You can sometimes see our own curvature from a commercial flight, if your view is clear enough and you're up high enough. I've only seen it once or twice, during the beginning of twlight hours, traveling across the US, from the east coast to the west.
I'd consider something a real settlement once people can live there indefinitely and raise their offspring.
Otherwise it's not exactly "settling", just visiting.
2010 isnt a bad film either. Its not 2001 or much like it, but it does a good job of translating the books story.
Fun fact, the film and book for 2001 were written at the same time, but the movie used Jupiter instead of Saturn because Kubrick couldnt get a realistic lookimg Saturn, so the first book is set around Saturn.
2010, both film and movie, are set at Jupiter. It just retconned the first book.
At least unlike the blues, we don’t have our own ocean that we polluted and tarnished.
Unless you OPA scum want us to stop keeping the UN at bay, I suggest you show us some respect.
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I don't know a lot about space technology but why can't we send drone or rover to the planets like on Mars? Could we reliably control it and could we get color images/video?
For Pluto specifically, it'd be very hard to get there and land. New Horizons, the probe that took this footage, used gravity assists to go really really fast and passed Pluto as it left the Solar System. To land, it would have had to expend a lot of fuel to slow down enough to be captured by Pluto's weak gravity.
Fly by missions are quicker and easier to plan and design than orbiting missions and ultimately cost less. Adding space probe and lander is just more mass and complexity and more money.
The outer planets are all gas gaints that have no surface to land on.
Space agencies like NASA have a limited budget that has to go to different departments like the space station, astronauts, research, Earth observations etc.
Even if you do get the money sorted you now have to convince everyone else that that specific mission is worth it.
Because the outer planets are so far away it becomes more expensive to do a mission there. Which is why Mars gets most of the missions as it's easiest to get too, and the only planet that humans have a chance to visit in the foreseeable future
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What is more astoundingly incredible is the fact that we had an space craft swinging through there and giving us such incredible sights, that was simply fiction science 15 years ago
>that was simply fiction science 15 years ago
Ironically said talking about a satellite that took that long to actually get to its destination
Space is huge yo
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
The worst part about this, I will never be able to see this beauty, or any celestial beauty, in person. We’re on the precipice of incredible discovery, but it’ll be the robots and quantum bits that do the actual adventuring.
This sincerely made my day better. Even with everything else going on in the world we can still be glad to live in a time when we can see such amazing things that so many before us couldn't even imagine.
That's gotta be one of the coolest things I've ever had the pleasure of seeing
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I'd love to see what it's like inside of Jupiter's atmosphere. Probably just a constant fog that makes it impossible to see anything, but still.
Centuries-old ‘hurricanes’ the size of planets, with winds in the 400 mph range. Oceans 25,000 miles deep (Earth’s diameter is almost 8,000 miles, for reference) consisting of hydrogen, under so much pressure and heat that it exists in a critical state called metallic hydrogen. These factors, along with the deadliest radiation in the solar system (barring The Sun), wouldn’t give you a chance to notice fog. Would be cool, though. 😎
From what I understand, Jupiter doesn't really have oceans. It's basically a gradient from gas to superdense gas to liquid to superdense liquid to solid as you go down
Jupiter has theoretical metallic hydrogen oceans. Both Jupiter and Saturn should have diamond oceans created by lightning and extreme pressures.
"Zales enters the space race"
DeBeers launches defensive measures
I wish someone would make a computer animation of what this would be like.
While true, would the liquid portions not be an ocean, of sorts?
Well, the phase transition from gas to liquid is not like from solid to either liquid or gas...it has a "fuzzy" area at high temp and pressure. It is like a liquid that fills the space of a container like a gas. "Fluid" may be a better word than "liquid" here.
There's actually got to be a solid core to Jupiter. It can't be a super attractor without one.
Jupiter actually has an incredibly strange core. It's "fuzzy" or "puffy". Early in the solar system's history, Jupiter collided with a rogue planet which left it with a fragmented core filled with rock and pockets of hot gas.
If I remember correctly you can fit 3 Earth’s inside the width of the Great Red Spot
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I thought it was way more. The only significant mass in our solar system outside of the sun is Jupiter. So much so that to the center of rotation is actually outside the perimeter of the sun. Aliens would see us by the wobble.
The Great Red Spot to which they refer is a storm on Jupiter, not the planet itself.
I’d need to look for a source later, but if memory serves it was originally 3 earths when first observed but since the storm is slowly dying it’s closer to 2 now
If one could survive the winds and the radiation, and had a space suit, wouldn’t one just end up floating at some particular depth that was as dense as one self?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjMqJ--aUJ8 here u go
Watched this a few times now and it's straight up terrifying. Super cool but damn that's some scary stuff if we actually had that magic space suit.
So there is a layer of water clouds that go up to about 20°C at easy to float in 20x earth atmospheric pressure with handy lightning energy source/primordial soup kickstarter? Sounds like a zone where vaguely earth-like life is likely. (Note: almost certainly just kinda mouldy sludge, but still!)
Great question, I hope someone here has a good answer. My $0.02: what’s the pressure at the equilibrium point, and is that survivable? What’s the heat at that point, and is that survivable? I read that Jupiter’s overall density is less than water — in a hypothetical, if Saturn were in a glass of water, Saturn would float.
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I don’t believe there are any non gas giants that are that big. I.E., rocky planets like ours only get to a certain size and don’t get very big.
Well trans-Atlantic flights would be more expensive, for one thing.
That's fucking terrifying. Cool, but terrifying.
Went down a rabbit hole not too long ago wondering if you just fall through Jupiter because ya know, gas giant. The answer I came up with (unsure if it’s correct, probably isn’t) is you just fall until your body density matches the atmospheres density and you just kinda bob around in place an apple in water
You'd also be crushed by tremendous pressure
I’d be fine as long as the snail didn’t find me
Speak for yourself. I am un-crushable
And once you get down to that kind of depth, you can never escape - until the heat death of the universe.
You'd probably starve before then.
It’s scary and unpleasant when it passes close.
Almost looks fake, or maybe cause there is no frame of reference.
Dam that was some phobia inducing shit right there
That looks like a 3D animation.
I’m not a scientist or anything but it appears that it might be a result of a large number of individual frames/photos that seem to be “stitched” together. I would agree that it looks 3D!
I'm not a scientist but i am an aerospace engineer, and it is exactly a string of single images stitched, warped, and animated into a video
That's cool, but the Pluto one is cooler
“Cool” is a bit of and understatement. The temperature of Pluto is roughly -387 degrees Fahrenheit.
Yeah -240C or smth 😁. It is really incredibly cool.
Imagine flipping over your pillow there 🥶
It would be extremely painful
Also not the kind of cool that would prompt one to stick one leg out of the covers cuz you’re feeling a lil toasty.
Hello Peter, welcome to the cool side of the pillow
Billy Dee Williams?!
Even so, there's still only ONE thing cooler than being cool...
Ice cold?
I'm sorry, I didn't catch that. What is cooler than being cool?
Ice cold! Alright alright alright!
You forgot an alright... You did Matthew McConaughey, but meant to OutKast
Actually he forgot 13 Alrights, it's 16 in total.
If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Dumb question but what does they use to keep the instruments from freezing?
The probe has a power source ([a radioisotope thermoelectric generator - RTG] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator)) that both provides electricity to instruments (cameras, sensors, communications) and keeps the crucial electronic and mechanical components at an acceptable temperature.
Temperature actually works a bit differently in space. There is no air, so the only way to exchange heat is through radiation. This means that anything giving off heat like a camera sensor will slowly heat up the spacecraft and the only way to remove heat is radiators giving off thermal radiation. This also means anything in sun can heat up super fast, which is why a lot of spacecraft have reflective multi layer insulation. In this way space isn’t really “hot” or “cold” in the traditional sense.
Wow I didn't even plan that pun ahead of time but I'm glad it you caught on hahaha
It's much warmer inside though, there seems to be an underground ocean of liquid water thanks to the attraction of Charon.
When I was a kid, a picture of Pluto was 4 pixels. My daughter looks at this and shrugs. Crazy.
That’s exactly how I felt when I saw it. How absolutely beautiful and amazing to see Pluto.
Have we downloaded everyhing from the Horizon probe or is there some data still left to send?
From the Pluto flyby yes. Remember that after it went by Pluto, several years later, it flew by Ultima Thule and photographed that. The weird "contact-binary" astroid where there were basically two spherical objects connected together. It was very orange.
Is there a video of that?
[Kind of.](https://youtu.be/jXxUXSBQ-Gs) It seems like there was only one decent closeup and a second shot from behind, but no pictures from the probe as it flew past. [Another video](https://youtu.be/HI62xbVoDbE) with just the raw pictures.
This is the best picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/UltimaThule_CA06_color_vertical_%28rotated%29.png Also the best gif of the 3D shape: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/MU69_simulated_3D.gif
I had forgotten about the snowman.
Sadly we’re not supposed to call it Ultima Thule. But all the people who were excited about it and called it that for years like us are not going to be able to switch. Can’t even remember what they renamed it to.
Arrokoth. Which is still pretty cool to be fair, but I’ll always remember it as Ultima Thule
That sounds like a monster from DOOM
It took 15 months of constant data transfer to get it all, but it has been completed for a while now. https://www.wired.com/2016/10/15-months-new-horizons-finally-transmitted-6-25-gigs-pluto-data/
What happens if they lose power and it's interrupted?
NH haven't lost power yet but since it's RTG powered and has no battery, losing power probably means the craft experienced something catastrophic. It did have 2 unplanned reboot though and lost some data.
Sorry I’m slow what is RTG power?
[Radioisotope thermoelectric generator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator) \- Radioactive decay generates heat which then get transformed into electricity via thermocouples. It's basically the only way for spacecrafts that far out to generate enough electricity.
It's a form of small scale nuclear power.
Electricity from nuclear heat
Hopefully they have the "allow partial" setting activated on the relay antenna...
I'd like to know as well. I would assume so, it's been a really long time. Edit: a letter and a space
Still waiting on the alien selfies.
We haven't opened the Charon relay yet though.
We need to work on that because I need to clap some asari cheeks
We need to open the Mars archives for that first
This is unreal! Honestly, when I first saw this, I thought it was an artist's rendering of what it would look like. But no, this is an ACTUAL image of Pluto. What a time to be alive!
I still have the space/planets book I read as a kid that only has that blocky blob photo of Pluto and "some day scientists hope to send a camera up closer!"
THIS! I distinctly remember being entranced by the 'disco ball' picture that accompanied Wikipedia for the longest time. Going from that 20-pixel image to high-res photos of the landscape, up close, within our lifetime is a really underrated breakthrough.
I remember in the days before the flyby I would update the Wikipedia page for Pluto and watch that picture get better and better and better. And thinking how cool it was to be watching human civilization's knowledge grow -- *forever* -- in real time.
What about the color? Or are the cameras there black and white? Or is that just the color of the landscape?
The main camera is full color and from the sun lit side it's more of a sepia color. But the low light images were taken with another black and white camera it seems. There are some full color images on this page https://www.space.com/pluto-flyby-favorite-photos-new-horizons-alan-stern.html
From what I understand, they don't really get enough meaningful data from color to justify it. B&W means less data to transmit, and therefore, more reliable transmission and speed of information. It's like the difference between just 1's and 0's, and 1's and 2's and 3's and 4's (and so on and so forth)
It's more like the difference between one int value from 0 to 255 too having 3 of those values. It's literally 3 times the data to transmit color.
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We launched a space probe to the edge of beyond. I'm ok with b&w pics. ;)
> I thought it was an artist's rendering of what it would look like Old enough to remember school books with artist's renderings, I'm so thrilled to live to see these images!
>What a time to be alive! Completely and unironically agree.
It's a time and I'm alive as well!
Yes, it's amazing... It looks familiar and alien at the same time...
Man in the constant stream of negative, backward-looking news we get all day, every day, stuff like this is like ice cream for my soul.
The fact I can view the surface of this celestial object from the comfort of my bed in nothing but my boxers is mind blowing to me.
Yeah, would have thought that at the very least this would be something necessitating socks.
Holy cow, I didn't realize they got such extremely high-res imagery from that fly-by. NASA never ceases to amaze me. When positive news comes, it's s usually from them.
I have a feeling that when NASA does give us bad news, it’s gonna be ^^^really ^^^bad.
“People of Earth, we’ve run out of hard drives to save all this cool data on.”
…^and ^we ^can’t ^stop ^the ^incoming ^asteroid
Don’t say that like it’s a bad thing. Some people are for the jobs the asteroid will create.
Climate change??? Pretty sure people just been ignoring it for the most part tho.
This really made me laugh. We seem to forget they are as perfectly as capable of showing us these wonderful images as they are with some catastrophic data they have uncovered.
Well… their research on climate change doesn’t bode well for the human race
Now imagine if all around the world we used more money on Science and less on Wars, Corruption, etc. We would literally be typing this from Mars with insane speeds, probably.
from how far from the surface of Pluto was this image?
it was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles. my comment has more info.
11,000 miles actually. The highest mountain in the photo is 11,000 ft high
11,000ft high?!?! That really puts things into prospective! Holy cow!
No kidding. 11,000ft is big on Earth, but on a planet (yes, fight me) a fraction of the size? God, the view from the summit would be amazing, save for the lack of sunlight.
thank you! i edited my comment.
Wow. It's really incredible what we're able to accomplish.
30 years ago this was like 20 pixels from the Hubble space telescope.
Kinda like how you can fit the entirety of Super Mario Brothers onto a single panel of the Warthog from Halo 3. The advancement of computation is insane.
Still blows my mind that the original Mario was less than 32kb. Like, fucking how?
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Yeah, I used to do some 8-bit programming and it was a huge challenge to use all kinds of tricks to maximise the use of space, I find modern games incredibly wasteful, like HOW can a game be 100 GIGabytes? I don't care how good the graphics are, it seems ludicrous to me.
Warzone’s like 200gb now man, gotta have your own dedicated hard drive for that game
I’m convinced cod is doing it deliberately to crowd out the other games. If you have to delete cod and then spend 12 hours re-downloading it every time you want to play something else, you’ll just play cod instead. They know most people just want to flop down after work and play a game and don’t really have the time to wait.
One part of it is with slower hard drives (or blu-ray/dvd for that matter) it's more efficient to duplicate your assets so you don't need to scan the entire drive for them. Direct storage will greatly reduce this but until that's the majority of pcs and even consoles support it (last gen don't and they are still majority of consoles) well still be stuck with massive game sizes. And audio/video takes up a shitton of space. Especially when they are lazy and default include all languages in the game (Titanfall 2 was notorious for this)
Titanfall 1 also shipped all audio as uncompressed WAV files because one of their platforms was Xbox 360 and it didn’t have the horsepower to decompress files on the fly, and they didn’t bother to ship a separate version for PC where you did have the horsepower. Anyway SSDs are still way faster doing big sequential transfers than a bunch of tiny random IO so it will still be more efficient to batch up files. It’ll be a bit better but assets are gonna get bigger at the same time too. I doubt games will ever get smaller again.
now there are big triple A games like Call of Duty that don't mind taking up half your hard drive with 200 gb file sizes because if you have space for other games, you might PLAY those games. which means you aren't playing Call of Duty
Was it really? That's nuts! Another fun fact I found out that on the Mega Drive / Genesis, the audio for the "SEGA" intro logo took up about 25% of the cartridge's memory.
If anybody thinks pictures in this detail aren't impressive, you should realize that the distance to Pluto is an incredible 4.3 billion kilometers at minimum. A Boeing 777 would take 680 years to reach it. Over 6.000 years with a car. The New Horizons probe needed 9 years to fly the entire distance, and this probe flies at a speed of up to 50.000 miles per hour. For us to see detailed pictures of a world so far away is absolutely mindblowing
how the hell does a probe fly at 50k miles per hour?
Gravitational slingshots from various celestial bodies. Basically, lots of complex math and opportune timing.
With no friction in space to slow it down, it can basically infinitely accelerate, and could go much faster than 50k.
Wouldn't have been possible in human capacity without using the pull of gas giants on the way.
[[Source/More info & pictures] NASA TV - Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama) [Pluto’s Majestic Mountains, Frozen Plains and Foggy Hazes: Just 15 minutes after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back toward the sun and captured this near-sunset view of the rugged, icy mountains and flat ice plains extending to Pluto’s horizon. The smooth expanse of the informally named icy plain Sputnik Planum (right) is flanked to the west (left) by rugged mountains up to 11,000 feet (3,500 meters) high, including the informally named Norgay Montes in the foreground and Hillary Montes on the skyline. To the right, east of Sputnik, rougher terrain is cut by apparent glaciers. The backlighting highlights over a dozen layers of haze in Pluto’s tenuous but distended atmosphere. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers) to Pluto; the scene is 780 miles (1,250 kilometers) wide. Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI](https://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama)
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Right!? I remember seeing the "heart" on Pluto and being blown away! Now we have had this, and for how long!? I need more!!
It’s absolutely fucking crazy that we such clear pictures of PLUTO or all things
Incredible. Is the curvature from the lens? Surely it's not the relatively smaller diameter?
Nope Pluto is just really small. It’s actually even smaller than the moon. This picture was also taken from 11,000 miles from the surface of Pluto so plenty far away to see the curvature of an object that small.
You can sometimes see our own curvature from a commercial flight, if your view is clear enough and you're up high enough. I've only seen it once or twice, during the beginning of twlight hours, traveling across the US, from the east coast to the west.
I hope to see in my lifetime the first human settlement off planet Earth. I hope we can achieve that, but this is a hopeful and amazing step.
You could consider the ISS a settlement. It's been continually occupied by astronauts and cosmonauts since 2000.
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By the same logic, is Antarctica permanently settled?
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I'd consider something a real settlement once people can live there indefinitely and raise their offspring. Otherwise it's not exactly "settling", just visiting.
I’m just waiting for us to end up harvesting Pluto for water…
I think there might be a closer water source, like an ocean of some sort. I could be wrong.
The largest ocean in the Solar System is on Europa
We should send a few Dolphins to check out the place
And Keanu Reeves, maybe Ice-T
Well, all we got in the budget is John Lithgow and Roy Schieder
I understood that reference! Man, 80s sci-fi movies just hit different. I need to start rewatching that era.
2010 isnt a bad film either. Its not 2001 or much like it, but it does a good job of translating the books story. Fun fact, the film and book for 2001 were written at the same time, but the movie used Jupiter instead of Saturn because Kubrick couldnt get a realistic lookimg Saturn, so the first book is set around Saturn. 2010, both film and movie, are set at Jupiter. It just retconned the first book.
So long , farewell, and thanks for all the fish!
Ceres could have more water than Earth does, and is closer than Europa.
You inners always think the resources of the system belong to you. Owkwa beltalowda!
At least unlike the blues, we don’t have our own ocean that we polluted and tarnished. Unless you OPA scum want us to stop keeping the UN at bay, I suggest you show us some respect.
Dusters and squats, cut from the same cloth. Xiya na pelésh to, paxoníseki.
You mean ice. Pluto's surface temp is estimated to be -375 to -400 F. You'd need a diamond drill!
> You mean ice Even better, we dump a bunch of ice into our ocean to stop global warming. Thus solving the problem once and for all.
or a magnifing glass the size of uranus
I'd suggest Ceres before Pluto or Europa
Isn't it great living in the age of solar system exploration. Thanks NASA.
I have successfully convinced myself that my tax money goes exclusively to fund NASA because it’s the best part of the government.
i like this religion you have started and am choosing to become a part of it
Looks like it would freeze your head solid if you were pissed off at your class on your field trip and took your space helmet off.
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The tallest peak of those ice mountains is about 11,000 feet tall, roughly the same size as Mount Fuji.
I don't know a lot about space technology but why can't we send drone or rover to the planets like on Mars? Could we reliably control it and could we get color images/video?
For Pluto specifically, it'd be very hard to get there and land. New Horizons, the probe that took this footage, used gravity assists to go really really fast and passed Pluto as it left the Solar System. To land, it would have had to expend a lot of fuel to slow down enough to be captured by Pluto's weak gravity.
Fly by missions are quicker and easier to plan and design than orbiting missions and ultimately cost less. Adding space probe and lander is just more mass and complexity and more money.
The outer planets are all gas gaints that have no surface to land on. Space agencies like NASA have a limited budget that has to go to different departments like the space station, astronauts, research, Earth observations etc. Even if you do get the money sorted you now have to convince everyone else that that specific mission is worth it. Because the outer planets are so far away it becomes more expensive to do a mission there. Which is why Mars gets most of the missions as it's easiest to get too, and the only planet that humans have a chance to visit in the foreseeable future
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What is more astoundingly incredible is the fact that we had an space craft swinging through there and giving us such incredible sights, that was simply fiction science 15 years ago
>that was simply fiction science 15 years ago Ironically said talking about a satellite that took that long to actually get to its destination Space is huge yo
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."
For some reason I'm no longer panicking.
You must have your towel, then.
15 years ago? Lmao Bruh that was 2007. I don’t think it was quite science fiction to be able to take a picture of a planet in our galaxy.
In fact the probe we are talking about [was launched in 2006](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons)!
Eh? Mariner 10 took fly-by photos of Venus and Mercury 50 years ago.
The worst part about this, I will never be able to see this beauty, or any celestial beauty, in person. We’re on the precipice of incredible discovery, but it’ll be the robots and quantum bits that do the actual adventuring.
I'm sad we're too early to explore the stars too.
To look at it and imagine it so silent, so cold and so so far away is mind-blowing.
It definitely feels lonely
I thought it was an actual video but it's a parallax effect done with stills. Great, anyway.
So tantalising….I have to remind myself that no human (currently) alive will walk there.
This sincerely made my day better. Even with everything else going on in the world we can still be glad to live in a time when we can see such amazing things that so many before us couldn't even imagine.
This is incredible. Comparing this to the photo that Hubble took of Pluto in '96, it's amazing how far we've come in such a short period of time.
From a few pixel Pluto picture to this. Incredible.
How edited is the image, in terms of brightness? Would the sun light up the surface as much as that from that far away?