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Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:01 pm
by ffutures
From the Astronomy Picture of the Day feed, a lovely preview of next weeks Juno probe Jupiter orbital insertion, in the style of a Hollywood blockbuster trailer.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160628.html
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:15 am
by Wildeblood
Cute.
What ever happened to the European space programme?
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:40 am
by spud42
bloody overly dramatic yanks!! lol
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:52 am
by Smivs
Wildeblood wrote:
What ever happened to the European space programme?
It's alive and well, and
still doing clever comet stuff.
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:03 pm
by Cody
JOI in five and a quarter hours - go Juno!
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 10:35 pm
by Smivs
It's those little Lego figures I feel sorry for - they must be sh*tting bricks!
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 6:31 am
by ffutures
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 9:41 am
by Cody
Aye, pretty good stuff... though I hope those Lego figures don't inspire some kind of cargo cult amongst the cloud-dwelling Jovians.
Juno
Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 8:49 pm
by Cody
Jupiter's
south pole as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers).
The oval features are cyclones, up to 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) in diameter.
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 9:08 am
by Getafix
What is this blue area?!?
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 10:45 am
by Disembodied
Getafix wrote:What is this blue area?!?
The press release labels the photo "enhanced colour", so it's probably not as it would actually appear to the human eye:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/a-wh ... no-mission
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2017 1:00 pm
by Cody
I suspect many astropics would look rather dull without the enhanced colour stuff.
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 4:50 am
by Alex
They use quite a bit of the electromagnetic spectrum to scan. And a pretty good computer to convert them to what we can see.
I'm well impressed and curious as to what the weather is like from these images. I'm guessing my old parka won't do.
More curious as to what is sent back when the wee beastie takes it's swan dive to the never never.
By the way. JOI had a very different meaning before 'Mary Whitehouse' got to the internet.
Re: Astronomy - J.O.I.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 9:59 am
by Cody
