Grayson Byers
Grayson Byers • upvoted 9 items 10 months ago

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
It will not be long until Earth is like this planet after us lot have buggered it up.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
There is though to be some water in Jupiter's atmosphere (though it is by far mostly hydrogen). Water is generally thought to be responsible for the planet's very powerful lightning discharges. However actually detecting it directly has so far been elusive. For instance, scientists were hopeful they would be able to detect water when the sent the Galileo probe plunging into Jupiter's atmosphere and the end of its mission, however they didn't and it's been theorized they just got unlucky and hit a particularly arid patch in the atmosphere.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
It will not be long until Earth is like this planet after us lot have buggered it up.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
There is though to be some water in Jupiter's atmosphere (though it is by far mostly hydrogen). Water is generally thought to be responsible for the planet's very powerful lightning discharges. However actually detecting it directly has so far been elusive. For instance, scientists were hopeful they would be able to detect water when the sent the Galileo probe plunging into Jupiter's atmosphere and the end of its mission, however they didn't and it's been theorized they just got unlucky and hit a particularly arid patch in the atmosphere.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Tiny looking, but at that scale that's oceans of water... It just has no where to fall

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
I am fascinated by this stuff.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
woah

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Nope. Clouds can be made of many things. Titan's clouds are made of Methane and its lakes are hydrocarbon. Other than that, it's remarkably earth like. Same thing here. Hydrogen and a bunch of other nasty stuff.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Just imagine.... It boggles the mind.... And makes for a great space fiction movie

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
If there are clouds, wouldn't that mean there's also water?

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Van Gogh got it right!
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Grayson Byers
Grayson Byers • upvoted 14 items 11 months ago

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Yeah but the planet is larger, so it scales accordingly

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Someday we will have permanent, inhabited space stations near Jupiter. How lucky will the people on them be with a free, ever-changing art gallery next door.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Yeah but the planet is larger, so it scales accordingly

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Someday we will have permanent, inhabited space stations near Jupiter. How lucky will the people on them be with a free, ever-changing art gallery next door.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Once called a failed Sun, perhaps Jupiter's gravity has Swallowed lots of things in its time. With the gravity of this planet its Hydrogen may even be in metallic state. Still I wonder if this planet is a gas giant has there been x-rays of the planet? or is that not possible due to how large the mass is?

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Not-so-fun fact: The giant red dot is a storm that has been raging on for about 3 centuries, but it has been shrinking a significant amount lately, and could be totally gone by the time 20 or 30 years has passed.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Amazing

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Can anyone tell me why these are blue?

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
I'd like to watch the weather presenters on Jupiter. "It's going to be pretty stormy today. Just like every day for the past billion years..."

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
Yes, for anyone who doesn't know about this, if you could go there, you would just fall into the planet, with the atmosphere getting thicker until you got stuck in it but there would not be any land to reach.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
wow...this looks like something Van Gogh would do. this is spectacular

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
WOW!😲

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
It's hard to imagine just how large those are. I know we think of hurricanes on earth being large, but these would span continents.

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
It looks like a work of art, wow

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
If you, like me, can't quite picture that size: Distance from London to Beijing: 8161 kilometers or 5071 miles

NASA Released 30 Amazing High-Def Photos Of The Largest Planet In Our Solar System—Jupiter
This - like some others - could be used for Rorschach tests ;-)
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