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You do understand by "real" I mean they are not actual representative pictures of Jupiter's appearance right? I've viewed Jupiter through a telescope powerful enough to see the bands and the eye clearly and Jupiter looks nothing like this.
originally posted by: Outlier13
a reply to: Barcs
You do understand by "real" I mean they are not actual representative pictures of Jupiter's appearance right? I've viewed Jupiter through a telescope powerful enough to see the bands and the eye clearly and Jupiter looks nothing like this.
And if you have a link to something other than pictures NASA has revealed then I am all ears mate.
originally posted by: intrptr
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: salty_wagyu
Since then, dozens of people have processed the black-and-white files into gorgeous, calendar-ready color pictures.
So these are not the actual colours then?
They are actual colours, but have been enhanced for better clarity and saturation. Jupiter looks more bland in the unprocessed images.
I think what others would like to know is if we were there, how would Jupiter appear / 'look like' to our Visible Spectrum eyeballs?
I take it you have never made the effort to go look through a telescope
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: wmd_2008
I take it you have never made the effort to go look through a telescope
I have observed Jupiter thru my 8" Celestron, numerous times with no augmentation.
If I were there it would appear the same as it does in my viewfinder. I know this, was asking for others.
September 15, 2017: End of Mission as Cassini begins Final Entry into Saturn's Atmosphere.
originally posted by: wmd_2008
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: wmd_2008
I take it you have never made the effort to go look through a telescope
I have observed Jupiter thru my 8" Celestron, numerous times with no augmentation.
If I were there it would appear the same as it does in my viewfinder. I know this, was asking for others.
Would it, what you see through the scope is limited by the aperture and seeing conditions and your eyes.
originally posted by: Outlier13
a reply to: wildespace
It's simple. If NASA has to fake its images to the public and attempts to pass them off as authentic then how believable is anything that comes from them?
New Horizons instruments have been hard at work since well before the spacecraft arrived at Pluto.
The Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) instrument has been measuring the composition and density of high energy charged particles in the Sun’s outer heliosphere. New Horizons’ Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument collected solar wind observations en route from Earth to Pluto and is still collecting them out in the Kuiper Belt. New Horizons also has a dust detector, built and conceived by students on the New Horizons team, which detects impacts of particles from asteroids and comets.
originally posted by: elysiumfire
Great pictures! Just remember that NASA do indeed colourize their images to enhance speculative detail.
originally posted by: Outlier13
And lastly I will ask this for a 4th and final time. Point me to something other than pictures that NASA has produced over the past 60 years. You keep avoiding this.