I'm pretty sure that video was the best use of the full screen feature on you tube I've ever come across. Who'd a thunk you could get so much more detail and vibrancy from higher resolution shots of Jupiter?
"Researchers are trying to make sense of the gas giant's swirling mess of polar cloud formations"
I'll go ahead and suggest here that the polar regions can't sustain bands as the rotational surface speed vs depth of atmosphere won't work for it to, so the lowest storm band would just keep spinning off 'tops' into the polar region which then just becomes a giant (really giant)game of "Battling Tops!"
While I'm at it, I'm also intrigued by what looks like a 'stone' in the 'stream'- You can see it in the middle white band in the photo just below the reference to Jupiter's radiation fields. That pattern suggests a sub-surface fixed 'object' (or relatively fixed compared to the very fast moving stream of gas).
That's a pretty stunning thought. How could that even be?
They are getting better at the cgi pictures compared to Apollo's blue marble.
An easy observation: which camera drone did they deploy to take a shot of the unit in front of Jupiter on the header. A satellite or probe needs a light source and a second unit to take a shot with its body in it.
Lack of secondary and tertiary spectroscopic and camera mode data, is pretty bare bones given the budget. Maybe they're just not releasing that because of X.
Jaed, I suppose it's possible, but you'd expect a spinning swirl in it if that was the case, to hold that bundle of gas together, otherwise it should get ripped apart fairly quickly. Of course, I'm just a guy with just enough knowledge of liquid dynamics to get into trouble with something I really have no experience with! But it's fun to spitball a little.
To me, it's just that it's so atypical of the patterns on the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere- it arouses curiosity.
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Indeed.
Words cannot express.
I'm pretty sure that video was the best use of the full screen feature on you tube I've ever come across. Who'd a thunk you could get so much more detail and vibrancy from higher resolution shots of Jupiter?
"Researchers are trying to make sense of the gas giant's swirling mess of polar cloud formations"
I'll go ahead and suggest here that the polar regions can't sustain bands as the rotational surface speed vs depth of atmosphere won't work for it to, so the lowest storm band would just keep spinning off 'tops' into the polar region which then just becomes a giant (really giant)game of "Battling Tops!"
While I'm at it, I'm also intrigued by what looks like a 'stone' in the 'stream'- You can see it in the middle white band in the photo just below the reference to Jupiter's radiation fields. That pattern suggests a sub-surface fixed 'object' (or relatively fixed compared to the very fast moving stream of gas).
That's a pretty stunning thought. How could that even be?
An ice cube?
thanks! What a treat to see the work of the Creator so far away.
Maybe the "stone" is an area of denser gas? It might be very ephemeral.
They are getting better at the cgi pictures compared to Apollo's blue marble.
An easy observation: which camera drone did they deploy to take a shot of the unit in front of Jupiter on the header. A satellite or probe needs a light source and a second unit to take a shot with its body in it.
Lack of secondary and tertiary spectroscopic and camera mode data, is pretty bare bones given the budget. Maybe they're just not releasing that because of X.
Jaed, I suppose it's possible, but you'd expect a spinning swirl in it if that was the case, to hold that bundle of gas together, otherwise it should get ripped apart fairly quickly. Of course, I'm just a guy with just enough knowledge of liquid dynamics to get into trouble with something I really have no experience with! But it's fun to spitball a little.
To me, it's just that it's so atypical of the patterns on the surface of Jupiter's atmosphere- it arouses curiosity.
Jupiter is so large-scale that "quickly" might be "a few decades".
But yeah, I don't know anything either. Gorgeous planet, though.
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