Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/11/trippy-infrared-flyover-of-jup.html
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Eight, you say? Spooky coincidence - my planet has eight too:
(although they’re a bit disrupted at the moment, as the planet seems to be running a fever)
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Suddenly, I want pizza.
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Earth is just years away from producing the same!
Oooo I did not know that!
That’s SUSPICIOUS
Real question though: on a gas giant of a planet, what constitutes the “surface”?
Sorry, this is all I can think about when I see this video. Now I’m hungry.
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They’re not some CGI mockup
I wouldn’t go that far. A probe gathered the data, but the visualization is entirely computer-generated, including the movement through it.
Honestly, I don’t know what isn’t CGI in astronomical imagery these days. Even what seems to be a straight-up photo is usually stitched together, might include non-visible spectrum data, or is otherwise a merging of various data sets collected over time. Which is fine, but I find myself less impressed by it.
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The “lush” detail is in fact just a height map visualized with a 3D surface. I.e., this is not what clouds on Jupiter are actually shaped like. And this is not what clouds on Jupiter are colored like, since this is not a true-color image, it’s an infrared one scaled to visible frequencies.
Still pretty neat, but compare to this real-as-hell video of coronal mass ejections from the Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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