A recent image of Jupiter captured by Juno spacecraft
A recent image of Jupiter captured by Juno spacecraft
Process on an image processed by Gerald - Enhancement of colors
📸 NASA/JPL/SWRI / MSSS / Gerald Eichstädt / Thomas Thomopoulos
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It’s always so funny to me that the amount of saturation in these images is directly proportional to how long they’ve been doing the rounds on social media.
Directly downloaded from Official Website: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=53592&ts=1723603688
It's on the "official website" but it's a "user processed image". Looks like it was a color enhanced version of this original: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/Vault/VaultOutput?VaultID=53518&ts=1723603688
Which is dumb because the original is already super cool.
Hate to break it to you but from what I can tell this was captured with JunoCam, a visible-light camera. So an "unaltered" version would have familiar colors, and this is already edited.
I mean, aren't most images from orbiters and space telescopes heavily processed before the public ever sees them?
Of course, what they call "camera" might be a high-res spectrometer, plus there may be stacking, tiling, digital optics correction etc. However, the camera did capture a visible-light picture so it has a "natural" interpretation (you can convert it into a "human POV") and this is not that. It probably does not even convey extra information (such as exact wavelengths our cones cannot distinguish) so it's akin to just using a solarization filter on a normal color CMOS camera photo.
Oh didn't know that Thanks.
Oh wow I didn’t realize Jupiter is actually pretty and not just a tan streaky ball
Jupiter definitely had a post-high school glow up.
Looks like a gemstone I'd try to eat.
You know what rocks are delicious? Silica gel.