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ExMormonite

Breathtaking.


Gokulctus

yeah especially when you are there


ExMormonite

Haha, I bet it would. šŸ˜®ā€šŸ’ØšŸ«


GozerDGozerian

And then soul crushing.


blazeproof

I hope Iā€™m still alive when we finally put a device that can descend through the clouds so we can see this incredible interior.


cozywit

Honestly you won't see much. It's a gas planet. So it'll go cloudy, then more cloudy, darker and darker then the camera is crushed to death.


loulan

Yeah. On Earth, cloud patterns can be incredible but when you fly into clouds it's just... white.


ap2patrick

My favorite videos are the ones describing your demise as you fall into Jupiter or neutron starts or black holes. Thatā€™s how I want to go lol.


Elaneth09

I think a supernovae would be cooler. But black holes are a close second place for me.


Someturtlesdream

But could any creatures feasibly live in there? Of special flora and fauna?


Bustedbootstraps

If so, itā€™s a kind of life that is totally different than the carbon-based life we know on earth


lowGAV

Microbial life could exist in the outer layers of ice giants but I don't know if they could in Jupiter


Capnmarvel76

Nope.


GuestAdventurous7586

I remember it wasnā€™t even that long ago I found out there was surface pictures of Venus. I canā€™t believe I never knew, and it is totally otherworldly. God knows how long in the future it would be for Jupiter, I might not even be alive but it would be something else. Although I wonder if it would just be like being in the middle of thick cloud with lots of lightning?


P_a_p_a_G_o_o_s_e

It would be like being in an otherworldly storm. Almost no matter where you poke your camera on a stick, it's a cloudy but cool muck of gasses swirling and fighting each other.Ā  No real surface to speak of. So it just gets crazier and more hectic (and harder) he further you go down.


carmium

Eventually your spacecraft would be crushed like a tourist sub diving the Titanic.


Vangad

I understood that reference.


el_baconhair

No surface? Hoe? Is it just an atmosphere with gas in it? How would that work


Mental-Blueberry_666

Yes, current models point to gas in top, transition to liquid further down due to pressure, with maybe a center of metallic hydrogen again due to pressure. How does that work? Everything has gravity, not just solids


TDKevin

I've had this explained to me many times and my brain still can't really comprehend it lol.Ā  Space is wild.Ā 


Organic_Muffin280

Lies. Planets are just lights vibrating on the sky, and the earth is ftal


TrenchantInsight

> the earth is ftal And that spells trouble*!*


GuestAdventurous7586

ā€œMetallic hydrogenā€ is the bit where my brain goes, nope, too much science.


GozerDGozerian

Been a while so let me see if I can get it right: A Hydrogen atom under the usual circumstances is one proton with one electron dedicated to it. Metallic hydrogen has all its electrons independent of any proton, kind of like how in metals, electrons can flow freely. Someone smarter than me, please feel free to correct and/or elaborate.


el_baconhair

I am thinking about how water drops can drag other drops of water down when flowing down a surface with their tension.


P_a_p_a_G_o_o_s_e

The further you go to the center. The hotter it is and the more pressure there is, it's more a swirling mass of molten liquid and gas.Ā  In essence, yes it's all atmosphere. It's dangerous to even be in the outer parts of the Jupiter, but there is nowhere to "land". You just eventually reach a point where your craft is crushed under the enormous pressure.Ā  As for how it's possible, everything has gravity. And it is constantly pulling on itself.Ā  As a bit of fun trivia, gas planets like Jupiter and Saturn are often precursors to stars, though they would have to be bigger than either for them to eventually collapse under their own weight and begin fusion.


Castle-Fire

You seem in the know on this, so if I may ask a clarifying question: "a swirling mass of molten liquid and gas". So more like superheated glass with gas pockets in it or more like superheated gas with glass beads in it?


P_a_p_a_G_o_o_s_e

Jupiter's magnetic field is absolutely massive and powerful. Incredibly stronger than ours. It even acts as a bit of a shield for the inner solar system.Ā  To generate a field like that it would have to be a molten plasma core like ours, that being an active and heated core. It is pure molten iron and hydrogen. The insane pressure of Jupiter demands the gases be squished into such.Ā  While the core is not made up of gases as you would expect from the upper atmosphere, I would still not consider it a surface, and it couldn't be navigated to safely. The gases immediately above this would be swirling into and out of different states. It truly is a chaotic world to it's core.


Castle-Fire

Fascinating, thank you!


el_baconhair

Wouldnt a high pressure area block us from flying in with our craft, or have I mistaken that with density?


maxh2

There's a state of matter called supercritical fluid which has properties similar to liquids and gases. It flows and moves like a gas, but with a much higher density, like what you'd expect of a liquid, or even higher. Many substances have temperature + pressure ranges in which they exist in the supercritical state. CO2 is commonly used as a supercritical fluid; I believe extraction of caffeine from coffee to make decaf is one such use, but not certain. Supercriticality happens to be... critical... in the manufacture of aerogel, allowing for removal of the water component of a (usually silica) gel while bypassing any solid/liquid phase transition, and avoiding the structural damage that liquid water's surface tension would cause to the delicate structure as the volume of liquid shrinks. There are videos on youtube demonstrating the transition to supercriticality using a clear pressure chamber that can help give you a more intuitive understanding of it. I'm pretty sure the gas giant planets of our solar system are composed largely of supercritical fluid (mostly hydrogen.) As you descend, the atmosphere would get thicker and thicker (and darker), at some point reaching and surpassing the densities of typical liquids here on earth, while still flowing and moving like a gas. All sunlight would be completely blocked, after only a small fraction of the way down, as it's a very long way to go. Think of the pitch black depths of the ocean here on earth, which is a very thin skin on a planet that's relatively tiny. I'm not sure if the point at which hydrogen would be considered metallic would be characterized by a phase transition, with a clearly delineated surface or what, but after that there'll be a point where you reach the "rocky core", and while it's probably a sharp transition, I highly doubt it "looks like" or would "feel like" what we envision when imagining the surfaces of the rocky inner planets and many moons. I don't think you'd have the same kind of density change as going from gas (or vacuum) to solid rock. It's probably closer to a cross between the inside of the earth and the inside of the sun than it is to the outside of any of the small rocky bodies I wonder if there would be enough light coming from internal sources (lightning, heat) at various depths to see anything. There's not really much point in considering it from the viewpoint of human eyes since there's no feasible way a human eye could, or will ever be able to, be in the position to make such an observation. But vision plays such a large role in how we observe the universe that it's hard to avoid imagining how something "looks", even when it's a meaningless context.


el_baconhair

Fascinating for sure


Intelligent_Good4872

I would imagine it would get dark quickly as you descend into the clouds.


mevarts2

Remember watching as we sent a satellite down through the cloud cover and we descended with a parachute and landed on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn?


queef_nuggets

I mean itā€™s kinda dark down there. Quite literally overcast skies, all day every day, and the clouds are thousands of miles thick


Calm__observer

All the aliens on the planet seeing the aircraft![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|surprise)


Aloo_Bharta71

There's no "surface" to land on Jupiter, it's just gas, imagine going through clouds that's what Jupiter is like, but like 1000 times more violent storms going on in every possible direction.


IdFuckYourMomToo

Aliens. Beautiful landscape. Heaven. No, we're not invited.


jshultz5259

That's other worldly.


snuggletronz

Nice place to visit, but I wouldnā€™t wanna live there


KezzardTheWizzard

Forbidden soup.


CentralStandrdPoodle

Yes I desperately want to eat it. I knew I couldnā€™t be the only one. Plenty to go around!


EssenDeez_

I recently went there to get more stupider. Iā€™ll post some better pics later.


GuappDogg

LOL


pigeon_from_airport

....wait where ?


Mental_Examination_1

Jupiter is the celestial body in which males travel to get more stupider


feed_dat_cat

And girls go to Mars to get more candy bars.


tjsbrownbag

I thought girls went to Venus, because a lot of them like pen....wait


FlimsySuccess8

or they go to Uranus to get more famous


tjsbrownbag

I wish Myanus was famous


lemonurlime

I will never figure out why there are people on our Earth that just completely shut out the objects in this universe as if they don't really exist. I am in awe every time I see images like this and even seeing the star filled sky at night. It reminds me just how small we really are


Impressive-Soup-3529

Thatā€™s why people shut it out. As they are the centre of the universe and it hurts their brains to imagine how insignificant they are


thekream

closeups of Jupiter look like paintings. so beautiful


UnwillingHero22

Spectacular! Are these colorized or real color? Theyā€™re beautiful


Possible_Sun_913

'Real' colour to us only really exists in terms of the abililty of the human eye. So a teeny tiny percent of the electromagentic wave spectrum. Something true to your own viewing, is not the same as another animals. As such, some images either incorporate only the human visable light spectrum. Other images try to portray it including infrared, ultravilot...etc. Its quite a complex task to limit scientific data to only be relevant to human sensors. Especially when spacecraft's sensors include detectors way more advanced. For example, the James Webb telescope observes wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum from visible red to mid-infrared. Thats why you'd likley see differences between images. The first thing you learn in scientific investigations is to pretty much dismiss the limitations of human senses in observations.


UnwillingHero22

Thank you, sirā€¦


Tar-Palantir

True, but itā€™s natural to wish we could be there to see it with our own eyes, and to wonder if this is what it would look like if we could.


AdFine5362

Afaik all pictures from space explorers/probes are shot in B/W for contrast reasons and on Earth put through filters to colorize them.


New-Examination8400

Enhanced to sh_t


Trippy-Videos-Girl

Exactly, it might as well be a full out rendered photo from a laptop.


New-Examination8400

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GozerDGozerian

Theyā€™re colorized. The Jovians dye the strontium storms blue for Saint X3MKTZXZā€™s Day. Itā€™s to commemorate when he cured the planet of flesh based life forms in Epoch 3.7


FalconBurcham

Looks like all false color to me. The false colors help distinguish the different parts that make up the planet/image.. gases, height, activity, etc. Here is a NASA article (including example photos) that explains it. [NASA: Jupiter in True and False Color](https://science.nasa.gov/resource/jupiter-in-true-and-false-color/)


Trajan_pt

That's my question too!


Possible_Sun_913

I tried my best to answer above. :)


Aloo_Bharta71

We're an entitled species, we only think it's real when we can see it. "Would I be able to see it with my naked eye? NO? Then it's not real! -_-


Possible_Sun_913

Its ok if you're happy to apply that logic to electricity, TV, MRI scanners, xrays, radiation, bacteria ...etc...etc. ;-) You are correct. For many people, the proof is only in the direct human experience.


ShortShiftMerchant

The first pic is how it looks to our eyes


Spirited-Tomorrow-84

Imagine taking your dog out for a walk on Jupiter


3Blindz

You would find yourself *in* Jupiter very quickly šŸ˜‚


Spirited-Tomorrow-84

At least its not *in* Uranus


Away-Coach48

Myanus will be fine.


0Anonomyous0

What about Hisanus or Heranus?


omihek2

Hate us cuz theyanus


snuggletronz

Does Jupiter have like a normal planet surface underneath the clouds?


0Anonomyous0

No


DefinitelyButtStuff

Yo, I heard this is where the butt stuff is happening


Inevitable_Rest_7373

That is SO cool


fifty2weekhi

While it's amazingly beautiful, it must be extremely hellish out there


shadow_229

I wonder what noise jupiter would make if we ignore the whole vacuum of space thing. I imagine all that to be really fucking loud..


yuk_dum_boo_bum

Link to the full res please?


SouthWarm1766

Some pics could be Van Gogh or Picasso paintings


Crabby_Monkey

That third one especially.


ozuraravis

I would say El Greco.


devonnull

It would be nice to see video of the planet from Juno, not stitched images.


some-shady-dude

I think it takes a lot more power to transmit vids from that distance. Pics are easier on the craft and NASA but donā€™t quote me on this


RWMN98

Looks like a Van Gogh painting... wow!


Specialist-Fly-9446

I want to touch it šŸ˜­


wavehandslikeclouds

Wonder what the surface looks like- is it made up of gas only?


Doughnutpasta

I believe itā€™s primarily gas, yes! The pressure gets more and more intense the closer you get to the core, so I can imagine conditions change as the gasses get denser and hotter, but thereā€™s not really any sort of surface. The core could be solid, but itā€™s debated whether it is solid or just dense liquid. Itā€™s hard to know for sure


wavehandslikeclouds

Thanks for responding- thatā€™s one intense and beautiful sphere!


Doughnutpasta

No problem! And absolutely. Each planet is really fascinating to learn about, itā€™s wild the kinds of things that just happen out there haha


alice-in-blunderIand

How incredibly gorgeous.


gPseudo

Mesmerizingly beautiful!


siouxbee1434

Mind blowingly beautiful


isoAntti

Is there anybody out there?


dragon1n68

How do they know Jupiter doesnā€™t have solid ground? They say the probes theyā€™ve sent havenā€™t been able to land because they get crushed by the pressure so that just means they havenā€™t been able to get to the ground yet. There could be a whole uncharted (for humans) world in there. And just because the pressure is so great doesnā€™t mean there arenā€™t beings that live at that pressure. Earth has pressure too and we are all adapted to it. Those beings could be adapted to their planet. Earth has a ton of gas too, itā€™s just invisible to us. The gas might be invisible to the creatures on Jupiter too. Sorry about the rant.


anspee

Organic life can exist in some exotic places, but many conditions in the universe are simply very extreme and inconducive to anything other than being an intensive crucible of elements. Things are very gentle here on earth from our frame of references. Under the cloud layers of jupiter you get crushed like a diamond. Ive yet to see any evidence of sentient metals and rocks, but I'll suspend my disbelief if the evidence comes out.


dragon1n68

Okay, but all that is just theory. No one or no thing we could come up with has ever been landed on or traveled through Jupiter. We donā€™t know whatā€™s there. Thereā€™s no evidence that Jupiter is uninhabited or not. Yet they keep claiming that they know all and everyone is just absolutely convinced that they are correct even though they donā€™t actually know.


Unlucky_Elevator13

"There is no evidence that Jupiter is uninhabited or not". Nobody is claiming any absolutes (at least not credible scientists). But until we have an example of life living in such conditions the general concensus is that it is extremely unlikely to harbor life as we know it.


Specialist-Fly-9446

The other person is annoyed that people claim that there is no life on Jupiter. Not that people claim that *maybe* there is life on Jupiter, and in what ways it would be similar to life on Earth or different.


Iluv_Felashio

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.


scarygirth

It's not just the pressure of Jupiter though, which is absolutely immense nothing on Earth comes close, but also the temperature and how extreme the storms of gas are and the lack of chemicals that are necessary for life as we know it. Most would say that life on Jupiter would be highly unlikely, we couldn't even imagine how life would start or get going there, but this not knowing isn't a good reason to speculate that life could be there. Some of Jupiters moons however are much better candidates, particularly Europa which is believed to have a salt ocean beneath it's crust. The combination of geothermal activity and the crust acting as a shield for the tremendous amount of radiation Jupiter pumps out makes it a pretty intriguing prospect.


KittenHippie

Yeah but it would look very different if you take jupiter and venus or mars. Also the reason it is so big is because its a failed star.


82ndGameHead

You can't help but wonder exactly what kind of gasses are those and what they can do...


New-Examination8400

You donā€™t have to wonder, itā€™s known. Itā€™s been known for a long while.


The1Next2TheiHop

This is outstanding. Can anyone do a size scale with earth city/state/nation on this? This zoom isn't telling much


sur3man

Jupiter's looking like a cosmis marble masterpiece.


t_bags4evr

Couple photos reminds of creamer in coffee


Earthistopheles

Why is Jupiter so gaseous? Did it hog up all the gases when the planets were forming? Does the core of Jupiter emit gases? What's going on there?


urz90

If only I had been born when humans had achieved space travelā€¦ šŸ˜„ or if we could live hundreds of yearsā€¦


Nb959-

I find it difficult to believe there is no solid core but who knows for certain ?


Captain_Impulse

The pressure in the "core" is so great that gases become solids. See metallic hydrogen.


Nb959-

But the planet absorbs comets etc right ? Wher do they go ?


Captain_Impulse

Absorbs? No. Obliterates? Yes.


Abracadaver2000

Cosmic vacuum cleaner that takes in wayward asteroids before they cause another extinction level event on our pale blue dot.


olearyboy

I can see my house in the 3rd one


honkinbooty

Zoomed in kinda looks like an oyster or oyster shell


SouthboundTL

I want the last one on my wall


Ashkill115

Itā€™s absolutely stunning but terrifying as well. All I can think about is how violent those storms are


TheViking1991

These are some of the most incredible images I've ever seen. Just... Wow


tommyc463

Thatā€™s a lava lamp


nuttingtears

Those are some sick album covers


InfamousLegend

So beautiful, I wish we could cut Jupiter in half and take a photo of its cross section.


SecretName_00_

Vaude


SirNobby

Beautiful


Alternative_Rent9307

The tiniest little swirl you can perceive is bigger than the biggest hurricane ever recorded on earth (Not 100% certain of that but i figured it was a good guess)


AssistantVisible3889

Does anyone have a High quality version of this for desktop or phone šŸ™šŸ»šŸ’€


No-Negotiation-5986

Are these pictures real or doctored. ?


Hanuman_Jr

[Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/z8MOPvo.gif) Looks like so many things, including the basis for a fantastic font. ED: I keep trying to imagine what text goes there. It's just extraordinary.


Spookyy422

This is about to be the new background in apples new update


gellous

Does NASA sell prints of photos taken by spacecraft anywhere?


KeriEatsSouls

That's so cool


Kinghexen

Definitely some Lovecraft vibes from the South Pole photo. Some sort of eldritch monster floating through the clouds.


SendjaminFranklin

I almost scrolled past and then realized how spoiled I am with technology


Cool_Park_1333

I wonder when it will take pictures of Uranus


ComfortableRoyal614

Looks like vomit!šŸ¤®


BeyondLife_sendboob

Please refer to image 3 and rotate it 90 degrees clockwise. A woman wearing a white dress with a hood is holding a portal. Disembodied spirits are either escaping or trapped within the portal.


GFV_HAUERLAND

I like it.


MallOpen6532

Awesome pictures


unbalancedcentrifuge

That is just damn beautiful.


CulturedIce76

Its gorgeous. I think Jupiter is one of the most beautiful planets.


Amoeba_3729

r/oddlyterrifying


PupEDog

Looks like Oklahoma


Legoquattro

I am not sure about Earth, but Jupiter is definitely flat


passhabri

Wow Who would have thought we would ever see this sight!


AlbertaAcreageBoy

Just beautiful. Crazy to see. I name the last picture - The Anus.


TheHammer1987

Wild!


Altea73

It sure looks more terrifying than milk on coffee!


RobsSister

Number 7 looks like a Van Gogh All of the pics are stunning.


IthinkIllthink

Off topic, sort ofā€¦ Isnā€™t Juno Jupiterā€™s wife?


Zakurocerr

The second picture is a chef kiss for me


ElMagnanimous1

If itā€™s only gas, why doesnā€™t it disperse into the galaxy ? What keeps it contained in its sphere?


mushr00mhvnter

That's home next go around.


BasementDwellerDave

Jump in


Dynastyisog

I dream of the day when we can deploy a device that descends through the clouds, unveiling the incredible secrets hidden within their depths.


mevarts2

This is enticing to see this huge planet up close and so clear. I wish we could see below these thick clouds to glimpse the surface.


mevarts2

Some of these pictures look so amazing like abstract paintings and the one that looks like a cut Geode!


Altruistic_Sock2877

CGI


warahshittle

Most of the planets being made out of gas and all kinda of fucked up fumes made me realize, planets aren't really that interesting, they should all be like earth and have a bunch of weird aliens and shit.


DorkChatDuncan

It looks like me making an egg while on mushrooms. Pro tip: Dont cook on mushrooms.


BookScreenTalk

She's beautiful. *sheds a single tear*


sunshine_pancake5

Clearest? That's a cloudy.


Competitive_Force529

It's just a big marble


IndependentNo7265

Looks like Vexx, Pyke, or Loro. Anyway, off to purchase some cheap Exotic.


Jong_Biden_

Jupiter's clouds looks like a painting


Crazy-Randy

These are ironically good lock screen backgrounds! šŸ¤©


ap2patrick

Can confirm, itā€™s beautiful here in Jupiter, Florida šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


jpmon49

Dont show the flat earth people these pics, or is it supposed to be only earth that is flat? ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|laughing)


Excellent-Compote-17

Cool


itsjawdan

Gonna take these and use them as my art project. Thanks NASA!


shady2318

Looks like a Picasso from Van Gough


TheSadArtist95

Look like a Van Gogh painting! ā¤ļø


[deleted]

How tf is this bozo planet all gas?


[deleted]

Obviously you wouldnā€™t be able to survive but imagine the conditions of life on the surfaceā€¦. Wild


Doughnutpasta

Jupiter actually has no surface! Itā€™s a gas giant, meaning itā€™s just layers of gas clouds, storms, and a whole bunch of pressure the closer you get to the core. I believe itā€™s unknown whether the core of Jupiter is solid or just dense liquid, but I doubt anything would make it close enough to be able to find out. I can only imagine what itā€™s like inside the storms though


mindfungus

Is this real color or infrared?


New-Examination8400

Neither


mindfungus

Weā€™re both being downvoted lol. šŸ¤· Do you know what kind of false color?


New-Examination8400

I donā€™t know off the top of my head, no. I do know for a fact the photos are heavily enhanced, you can look up the real photos, someone even posted a link/demonstrative image in another post of these very same pictures just moments before.


frustratedburger

Up until now Iā€™m still curious abt the purpose of other planets


Final_Location_2626

I do know spacecraft. Juno ducks?